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Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... Capital Management and Loch Capital Management to gather evidence that they engaged in insider trading. The word on the street now is who's next? My oh my, I don't know why the financial press attributed this as a market negative? Shouldn't this be another ...

CareSuper and ME take it to the streets

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
CareSuper talks to members in a local shopping mall in a bid to generate interest in super and financial advice. CareSuper has stepped up member services with an outreach approach alongside Members Equity (ME) bank, setting up in a ME branch to provide ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... China. Come now all ye merry gentlemen (and ladies)... not this one again. I've lost count on how many times prices on The Street dropped on news that China is slowing its economy. This time, a little bird told me that investors were spooked (again) ...

UK fast tracks pension reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
The UK government has brought forward plans to raise the retirement age and increased the contributions public sector employees must pay to fund their retirements. Chancellor George Osborne announced overnight that the pension age will rise to 66 by ...

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
What the? The past three straight trading days on 'The Street' provided a perfect specimen of investors' one data point to the next data point existence. Day 1. Overall US non-farm payrolls fell by less than expected in August. Private sector jobs increased ...

Thousands rally against Sarkozy

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
A French protest rally involving hundreds of thousands of French nationals marched the streets of Paris and beyond in protest to proposed retirement age changes. Thousands marched through over 130 towns and cities in a united protest against President ...

Investors eye $650bn 'niche' asset class

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... recently because of the capital scarcity. "The shipping industry can be quite closed off. You can't just walk in off the street and expect to have access, and you need to have an understanding of how the shipping industry works," Bisch stated. "What ...

Double positive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... positive and negative stats continue. It just depends where investors look. Last night, they looked on the sunny side of the street.

Glum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... companies are using these wads of cash to acquire or other companies. Just look at the M&A activity now happening on The Street. But no, it's the stupid economy! "We'll never make it! We're doomed!" Just as predicted, America's stock averages picked ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... flat, uneventful day on Wall Street. Reports out overnight were mostly positive but these did not stop profit-taking on The Street. Good news on the US jobs front... but not good enough. Initial claims for unemployment insurance dropped by 11,000 in ...