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Praemium scales back ops

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... development of its flagship products tailored to the British market but was forced to cut overheads following the UK recession. The technology firm told the ASX this week that it has reduced its operating cost base by around two million pounds per year ...

De-stressing the stress test

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... the coming months. This would slow the nascent improvement in the economy. Recall that the climb out of the 1990/91 recession was termed 'the jobless recovery'.

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... generally regarded that the Australian economy - largely because of China - would be immuned from the gathering global recession (at the time). Remember the decoupling theory? This ultimately proved unfounded. The US sneezed and global economies went ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... they decided to head in the opposite direction to increase their number of eyeballs? Is the end of the global economic recession in sight? Sure recent indicators have been less bad - still bad but less bad. Some investors have already started moving ...

Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... did not rule out the possibility of Australian unemployment figures hitting double digits in the midst of the global recession

The good in the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Sometime ago, I quoted Camp Quality's - an Australian children's family cancer charity organization - TV ad, 'Don't underestimate the power of optimism'. Wall Street lived this statement overnight with both the S&P 500 and the Dow rising by more than ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... the prior quarter, a severe drop in business investment coupled with higher consumer spending fuelled hopes that the recession could soon end. Those hopes were boosted when the Federal Reserve said the US economy is still contracting but at a "somewhat ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... on the dire potential the swine flu - if it becomes a pandemic - would have on the global economy. The deep economic recession we are now experiencing could turn out to be a depression. Dead consumers will not spend to prop up the economy no matter how ...

Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... compliance within their asset allocation targets which led to an increase in rebalancing. As a result of the a deepening recession and ongoing GFC, nearly half of the outflows occurred in the fourth quarter forcing many plans to raise funds to meet their ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... blow-outs simultaneously, these governments are diluting the efficacy of their policies on both - prolonging the pain of the recession and therefore, the time it takes to balance the budget. Danger! Danger!