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Cash is king in Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... per cent, to 4,727.6. NEW YORK - Wall Street was closed overnight for the Thanksgiving holiday. Markets reopen on Friday night. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 30.69 points, or 0.29 per cent, to settle at 10,464.4. The Standard & ...

Yamashita's treasure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... morning, the yellow metal was priced at US$953.7 a troy ounce. This translates into a 22.7 per cent profit to buyers as at last night. Those who bought bullions, bars and coins exactly a year ago are doing even better - the value of their holdings are ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... "The market was probably a little stronger this morning than we're seeing at the moment, with the Dow closed strong last night and a few commodities doing quite well," he said. "A lot of the commodity stocks were reasonably strong but everything seems ...

Planners brace for fiduciary revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... Corporations and Financial Services, handed down his Committee's 246 page report into financial products and services last night that was established following a string of financial collapses that left thousands of consumers billions of dollars out of ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
'Twas another big night on Wall Street as the countdown to Thanksgiving Day begins. And the Fed would have it no other way. But first let's take a look at the hard data. Give thanks for Americans are again buying houses. US existing home sales jumped ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... confidence felt in the US overnight. "They're still pretty weak, as expected, as we saw broad-based falls in the US last night with all sectors finishing down," Mr Potter said. "In Australia, all bar one of the sectors are in the red, with most of the ...

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... the sound of my head banging on my desk. For I'm confused - really very confused. Wall Street again dropped big time last night - well to be more accurate, just bigger than the smaller daily falls we've gone accustomed to over the past few weeks. By ...

Planners should be fiduciaries: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... best interests, regardless of how they are remunerated. Speaking during a major interview on ABC's Business Lateline last night, Brogden said, "Well if we now say in the new world there must be a fiduciary relationship between a planner and their client ...

The Art of War

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
'Twas another boring day on the Street last night. News out of America showed continued weakness - or is it renewed weakening - in housing and behaved consumer price inflation. Both of which bolster the argument that the Fed will be easy for how much ...