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Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... vice-chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the US central bank, White House officials have said. If confirmed by the Democrat controlled US Senate, Yellen would become the first woman to hold the post in the institution's 100-year history, replacing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on international markets as the US budget standoff enters its eighth day with no end in sight, stoking worries of a catastrophic default. At 0800 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Australian stocks are slightly lower as concern about the political deadlock in the US continues to weigh on investors. Stock markets across the world have been in decline for most of the past couple of weeks due to the standoff between Republicans ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street with traders nervous amid relentless partisan squabbling over a US budget bill to avert a partial US government shutdown. At 0759 AEST on Monday, the September share price ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
The Australian stock market has hit a fresh five-year high, following Wall Street's positive overnight lead. The market is around a third of a per cent higher which, following gains in the past two days, has pushed it to its highest level since mid-2008. ...

Aussie ETF industry comes of age

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
New record highs in the trading value in the Australian exchange traded fund (ETF) market show that the industry has come of age with investors increasingly using ETFs in sophisticated ways, according to BetaShares managing director Alec Vynokur. BetaShares ...

Problems, problems, problems

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
"Problems, problems, problems all day long Will my problems work out right or wrong..." -Everly Brothers Ahhh, the 'ber' months...they're almost here.A And true to form problems in the investment landscape are multiplying.A Statistics show that September ...

Cut welfare, give savings to defence: UK minister

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
In a possible warning of political arguments Australia may confront in coming decades when the national budget faces mounting aged care and pension costs, a leading UK government minister has proposed cutting welfare and diverting the savings to the ...

US regulator lifts hedge fund advertising ban

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
The US regulator has lifted a ban, allowing hedge funds to advertise to the general public for the first time in 80 years. The ban was intended to protect unsophisticated investors from high risk, illiquid investment pools. The Securities and Exchange ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
"Your love keeps liftin' me higher Than I've ever been lifted before..." - Jackie Wilson No Virginia, it's not about Wall Street this time...this time investors are back lovin' made-in-Japan stocks...lifting the Nikkei perhaps not higher than it's been ...