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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 ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... the Eurozone think of this? Duh! But more than the governments and central banks and international agencies, financial markets must also put in their two cents worth. It's a currency called confidence. It was confidence that brought back most economies ...

Medcraft to chair IOSCO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... of financial innovation and the ongoing risk that it will outpace regulation; the continuing globalisation of financial markets and products; and the migration of savings from the banking regulatory perimeter to the securities perimeter and with it the ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... fretful young dad in a hospital waiting room waiting for news of whether or not he has lung cancer. That's where financial markets are at this time - anxiously awaiting news of whether or not the tumour that is Greece has become a cancer that would soon ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... story of the "Sword of Damocles" is itself now that very sword dangling precariously above the heads of world financial markets. Any moment now. Events in Greece over the past few days have jacked up investor fears that soon - really, really soon - Damocles' ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... rest of the world. But I don't think it would be the doomsday scenario many fear. It is this fear that's given financial markets Alzheimers. They've forgotten that only last March the Fed revealed the results of its stress test. The results show that ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... the same as last year, Greece is back in the headlines and is again creating anxiety all over the place. While financial markets have seemingly gotten over Merkozy's divorce and have started to accept that it would be "Merde" from here on (deym, markets ...

Fearing the unknown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... index 1.3% higher - nearly recovering last Friday's 1.8% loss. Is this the calm before a heavier storm or have financial markets just realised that what's transpiring at this very point in time is exactly what they've been expecting all along. That is ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... Absolutely nothing. Yes Virginia, the greatly speculated, the much awaited, the indicator that'll set the tone in the financial markets over the next four weeks, that mother of all eco stats -- the US Non-farm Payrolls report - settled nothing when it ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... the mom of all stats - the US non-farm payrolls report - is released tonight. The one that'll set the tone for financial markets over the next four weeks, at least. It could give birth to renewed optimism or it's carrying the devil's child. Consensus ...