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Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... watching the race in Melbourne. And this morning, there are more stories about 'Shocking' (the horse) winning the Melbourne Cup than there is about the official cash rate rising by another 25 basis points - the second month in a row - to 3.5 per cent. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... 2009. On Tuesday, the Australian share market closed slightly lower amid subdued trading volumes because of the Melbourne Cup, and as the market awaited the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision on interest rates. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... 4,546, on volume of 21,326 contracts. CMC Markets analyst David Taylor said volumes were typically low ahead of the Melbourne Cup holiday, with most action driven by the falls on Wall Street on Friday. "The market's well and truly in the midst of a correction ...

25 bps to win Melbourne Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
Two major Australian events are fast approaching - Melbourne Cup Day and the RBA Board meeting. With two weeks to go till 3 November, punters are already eagerly punting on either Viewed or Efficient to win and the RBA to lift interest rates by 25 or ...

Rejoice for rates have risen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... Why? Because it is almost certain - 71 per cent probability -- that the RBA will follow-up with another hike on Melbourne Cup Day (3 November). And then...five more by June next year and two more before 2010 is over - all in all, a 200 basis point increase ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Days like these, I should have stayed in bed a bit longer. For this is one of those days when overnight action on Wall Street offered no adrenaline hit to my system. Will have to settle for three coffee cups this morning. The S&P slipped 0.3 per cent ...

Out with the new old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Headline: IMF warns worst to come, toxic debt to reach US$4,100,000,000,000. Yeah...yeah. Sure...sure. I am so scared. Wall Street ignored the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). This is because while delivered ...

HOSTPLUS sponsors Gold Coast AFL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... was recently granted a provisional licence from the AFL. This year the team will compete in the Victorian based under-18 TAC Cup competition and is expected to enter the VFL competition next year and the AFL in 2011. The Queensland strategy puts HOSTPLUS ...

Poidevin joins Pengana

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
The former joint head of Citigroup Australia's corporate broking business, Simon Poidevin, leaves Citi to join Pengana as an executive director. Russel Pillemer, chief executive of Pengana Capital, said Poidevin's experience and profile will help provide ...

China could own America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... allowed to fail. Or could it? While America is bailing out its institutions, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in China cup in hand begging the Chinese to continue sending money the US way. In a Chinese television interview, Mrs. Clinton said ...