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ASIC winds up unregistered managed investment scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... law. ASIC has been assisted by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in the United States of America, the Financial Markets Authority in New Zealand and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... single region. Then all bets are off. You, I and Irene would know for sure in three days time. However, although financial markets are expected to rally should Greece's pro-bailout party win decisively, this would not ultimately remove the tail end risks ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
Party pooper. Spoilsport. Booo! One can almost taste - yes, taste - the financial markets' disappointment when dear Uncle Ben came and spoke with not even a hint that those beloved letters Q and E are in the offing. Not even a wink, wink, nudge, nudge. ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... "enough", "not enough", "should have waited" whinges is the prevailing confusion and uncertainty over where financial markets and the economies of Europe, America and China are headed. You can tell by the flip flopping in market sentiment - and accompanying ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... Virginia, sums up the current state of the markets. With so much uncertainty around, it's hardly surprising that financial markets don't know which way to jump. Buy and risk holding the hot potato if the current global weakness continues and the eurozone ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... prefix my surname with the letters W and R for while I correctly anticipated that heightened volatility in the financial markets would remain for as long as the Grexit issue remains unresolved, I was so, so WROng in wishing and hoping and praying that ...

Bad news? What bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... fact - yes, it's a fact - recognised by Swedbank Chief Financial Officer Goran Bronner when he, along with the financial markets, pooh poohed Moody's downgrade of Swedish and Norwegian banks last week. "Moody's in general is very backward looking; they ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... all could turn around rapidly. But they're better starting points than those of America and Europa. Australian financial markets will tossed around with every change in sentiment in markets bigger than ours and our economy dragged down into the vortex ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... lotta of shaking on in the rest of the world in the not too distant future. Never mind the volatility in the financial markets spawned by the Ger-Gre game of chickens, but the two G's (Germany and Greece) bluffs and blusters are already creating real ...

Grexit sends investors running for bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... via our trading partners (such as China, which sees 20% of its exports go to Europe), confidence and global financial markets as banks and other companies obtain funding in such markets," said Dr Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy and chief economist ...