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Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
The Australian stock market has opened flat, with strong gains in consumer discretionary stocks offset by weakness in mining-related sectors. At 1027 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 4.1 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,967.2 points ...

Pro bono advice for disaster victims

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
Disaster victims will get free financial advice after the Financial Planning Association of Australia yesterday said that it had re-launched a pro bono service. The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has started the service up again to ...

US pension fund pulls gun investments

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
California State Teachers Association Retirement System (Calstrs), a $154 billion US pension fund, looks set to pull its investments in gun manufacturers in light of the recent mass shooting at Sandy Hook. California Treasurer and board member Bill ...

Political punch trading greatest risk to US economy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... Standard & Poor's cut the US's coveted AAA credit rating. With the election thought to be one of closest contests since George W Bush beat Al Gore in 2000, many political commentators fear that should Obama win, he will face running the country again ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... candidates rounding the final corner of their respective campaign races in what might be the closest election since George W Bush fended off Al Gore without a popular majority, the investment world is watching closely, trying to determine which stocks ...

Climate change already an insurance risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
Political opposition to the carbon tax may be at record highs in Australia but for insurers climate change has for many years already been an economic and business risk they have had to plan for. "Since climate change could lead to losses on a scale ...

US equities a gateway to emerging markets

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... dubbed QE3 - which would have seen it engage in an aggressive bond-buying spree, driving up the value of American equities. Bush-era tax cuts also end on 31 December, creating a $600bn budget black hole dubbed 'the fiscal cliff' that if not dealt with ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... the programme to December 31st, the Fed accentuates the stimulus withdrawal syndrome scheduled to begin on that date. The Bush tax cuts and payroll-tax cut expire then, and the sequester of automatic spending cuts takes effect on January 2nd. Should ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... robust recovery will lead to lower deficits and debt in coming years." Where would America be now without TARP and/or the Bush tax cuts and/or the cash for clunkers, and or QEs 1 and 2? So why is everyone and sundry demanding the opposite of Greece? ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... Sales of new motor vehicles increased by 2.8% in November to an annualised rate of 13.6 million units (the highest since Bush's cash for clunkers program). Increasingly confident American consumers are buying houses. Sales of new homes rose by 1.3% to ...