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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... Wall Street plunged again due to concerns about the possibility that Europe's debt crisis might spread around the world and stop the growing recovery in the US. The Dow Jones industrial average had its biggest one-day points drop since February 2009. ...

AR Group appoints CLS

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... distribution partner. AR's clients includes advisers and accountants who provide SMSF services to clients. The group offers a 'one-stop-shop' SMSF service to their clients without the need to recruit additional administration staff, divert key staff ...

Nein to naked shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
If you can't beat 'em, regulate 'em... again. The Germans must have been standing too close to the euro kitchen that they could no longer bear the heat. After all, them Deutsche -- more than any other Eurozone-member nation -- have much at stake and ...

Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... dirty shirt" in the closet. What does this mean going forward? Well, it sure as hell dispels worries that foreigners would stop lending to America for one. US interest rates would remain low for longer. America could continue on its business of stimulating ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... possibly involving Procter & Gamble." And with that single keystroke, the machines went to work, sending off a chain reaction of stop loss selling from one stock to another, from one market to another. Representatives of the major US exchanges and the ...

APRA contacts funds on rollover fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... (SPAA) is well aware of this issue and has already recommended that a number of administration processes could be refined to stop fraudulent rollover requests. In November last year, Andrea Slattery, chief executive at SPAA, said creating a central national ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... world suffered heavy losses overnight amid fresh fears that a massive bailout for debt-ridden Greece would not be enough to stop its debt crisis spreading to Spain and Portugal. CMC Markets market analyst David Taylor said the local market was feeling ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Here we go again! The rough and tumble of Wall Street on display as investors knee-jerkingly reacts to what is -- in the words of Donald Rumsfeld - a "known known." The problem that just won't go away; like an irritating fly in the midst of an Australian ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808) Greece has just climb 10 notches up crap creek when Eurostat - the European Union's official Statistician - called it a liar. Eurostat revealed last ...

Health Super members get insurance boost

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
No longer employed with a registered employer but still with Health Super? New insurance arrangements mean members can still receive cover despite ceasing employment with an employer. Health Super, which had $8 billion-plus in funds under management ...