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Tech glitch halts trading on Australian Securities Exchange

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
SYDNEY, Oct 27 AAP - Trading on the Australian Securities Exchange has been halted because of technical problems. The ASX sent out an alert shortly after the market opened at 1000 AEDT adding that all trades for Thursday were under review. ASX Ltd general ...

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
It's the same old, same old story playing (dragging on) on our financial screens - the tragedy that is Greece. And just like times past, it's leaving a sour taste on investors' mouths. The recent update talks of Greece's meeting with the troika of alms-givers ...

New risk technologies shifting industry power

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
New technologies are empowering individual investors to assess the risk of their investments through institutions, as post trade management enables real time data on asset exposure. Large banks and other financial institutions have invested far more ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Yeouch! You can hear this cry from New York to Rio and old London town as financial markets received a battering. Somebody must have forgotten to tell the markets it's only August and not October. Equity markets, commodity markets and bond yields (bond ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
The bad news just keep piling up don't they? And from the looks of them, they're everywhere. Let me take you to a bad news tour around the world Virginia, starting from our very own land DownUnder. If you're watching carefully, you'll notice that recent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices all finishing over one per cent lower. Gold and silver were higher, but oil slumped. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight. Key securities markets were higher, oil reached a new record, and metals also rose. At 0714 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was four points ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
"Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, In the lane, snow is glistening A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight. Walking in a winter wonderland.... Later on, we'll conspire, As we dream by the fire To face unafraid, The plans that we've made, Walking ...

SMSFs more sensitive to advice fees: report

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
The global financial crisis has made self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees more sensitive to fees, with 15 per cent of those surveyed in a new Investment Trends research expecting to pay less to access financial advice. The new research gives a glimpse ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
We've been told that the US recession officially died 15 months ago and Wall Street, it seems, is no longer grieving. In fact, the S&P 500 index looks on track to claim its "biggest September gain in 71 years" - unless Bloomberg is mistaken, that is ...