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Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... markets being closed on Monday night, said CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner. "We might set ourselves up for a little bit of a turnaround," he told AAP. "The risk is to the downside though. With US and European markets sold quite a bit, there ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has improved a little from its poor start but is still trading lower, after a sharp fall on markets in the United States and Europe overnight. The market slide was generated partly by an International Monetary Fund report ...

Young adults know very little about super

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Young adults are 'unengaged' by and 'uninterested' in superannuation and most show no knowledge of even the most basic facts. That's according to a new survey of nearly a thousand 25-34 year olds by the Centre for International Finance and Regulation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... All Ordinaries index was down 36 points, or 0.67 per cent, at 5,298.5 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have finished little changed, rallying somewhat from a big mid-session drop as investors looked ahead to the US jobs report for September. The ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... where large street protests have rattled investors, could also affect Australian stocks, he said. "We may see trade slide a little bit in the afternoon," he said. The resources sector was sporadic. BHP Billiton opened higher but was weaker by noon (AEST) ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Fifteen point zero nine points or just a little over 0.28%. This is all the All Ordinaries index need to slip by today to take it back to square one - where it was at the start of 2014. Given the lead from offshore markets overnight - the S&P 500 dropped ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... the good guy gets the girl and walks. Financial markets got nervy at Janet Yellen. Will she? Won't she? But despite the little excitement caused by the slight adjustment upwards of the "dots" in the "dot plot" (of interest rate forecasts), she did. That ...

ASIC reviews FoFA progress

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms have had little effect on either adviser numbers or the type of financial advice AFS licensees provide, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). In its review on the implementation ...