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AMP Capital opens NY office

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
AMP Capital Investors hopes to service its clients' increasing appetite for global mandates with the opening of a new North American Infrastructure office - making high profile recruitments to get things underway. "AMP Capital is one of the most experienced ...

World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
The weekend's G-20 Summit in Toronto is done, but is it dusted? Their communiquA(C) had something for everyone - it contained a framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth, something on financial sector reform, a bit on financial institutions ...

Wall Street beauties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
What's better than the Dow passing 11,000 and the S&P 500 jumping beyond 1,200? When they're backed by fundamentals and not wishful skips in the dark. Yes ladies and gents, although I warned yesterday that Wall Street's uptrend could run out of steam ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
It makes a great deal of difference, doesn't it? It just depends where you look. Just a week ago, nothing - absolutely nothing - could seemingly ease market nerves about the fate of the global economy and the financial markets. There were renewed stirrings ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
"Eat my shorts!" (Bart Simpson). Those who continue to hold a dim view of the Australian economy are fast dwindling. More have fallen by the wayside yesterday after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released another "beautiful set of numbers." ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
"Ladies and gentlemen, you're not on Kansas anymore..." (James Cameron's movie, Avatar) But based on financial market's reaction to last Friday's US payrolls report, "we must be over the rainbow!" (Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz). The sun shone, the ...

You're dreaming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
Whaaaaat! This was my immediate reaction when I the 'Breaking News" section on news.com.au flashed the headline, "Jobless number hits a seven year high." Yes, the headline achieved its aims - it grabbed my attention! A split second before clicking on ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket remained stronger at noon, albeit off its early peak, after better than expected economic growth numbers in the US overnight put a fire under the market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 55 points, or 1.2 ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
The Australian Bureau of Statistics - the National Bean Counter - has got it wrong. This was the main reaction to yesterday's fall in Australia's unemployment numbers. The Australian Labour Force Report showed that the country's unemployment rate fell ...