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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. ...

December taper, pants on fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013

AMP- managed infra fund takes stake in Irish telco

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower despite a rise in US stocks, although concerns about a possible military strike on Syria cut into Wall Street's early gains. At 0800 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
"So, are you going to tighten by Labor Day?" Tonight we're going back to the future.A Going back to that fateful day on the 22nd of May -- when Texas Republican and head of the Joint Economics Committee Kevin Brady posed this question upon US Federal ...

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 ...

Clear as crystal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
It doesn't get any clearer than this! It's crystal! No more communications breakdown. No more failure to communicate. Big Ben Bernanke has delivered! While it's mostly a reiteration of the repeated message I've been telling you he's been telling us ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
"Every single day Every word you say... I'll be watching you." -Sting Wall Street down and...you guessed it, it's taper on day. And so, round and round we go, when it ends we do not know. But perhaps we do. There's now an emerging consensus that the ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Old habits die hard it seems. Didn't US Federal Reserve Big Ben Bernanke already change the definition of Fedspeak to mean clarity of Fed communication of the Fed's intention on monetary policy a long time ago? The original meaning (according to Wikipedia) ...

CFP ranks to top 150,000 in 2013

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... three were followed by strong CFP professional growth from FPSB member organisations in South Africa, Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Brazil and India, showing the increased impact growth markets are having in establishing financial planning as a global ...