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Collapse does not signal end of gold party

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... ballooning and support growth," he said. "Until the countries backing the world's major reserve currencies put in place credible policies to control their growing debt burdens, the public will look to gold as one of the few hard currency hedges against ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... commodities also contributed to the selling of resources sector shares. "We don't know exactly what the source was, but it was credible enough to run through," Mr Shamu said. Mining giant BHP Billiton led the market lower, falling 2.9 per cent, or $1.12 ...

Van Eyk warns against New Year financial predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... year." However, considering the fact that predictions are widely made at this time of year, Ramsay said that the most credible analysts are "those who are prepared to raise last year's predictions and discuss how close they came to reality and why." ...

ICA Board appoints Zurich CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... development of a strong and responsive insurance industry. It represents the collective experience of insurers and is a highly credible voice heard by government and broader industry and consumer groups." Fogarty is expected to bring substantial executive ...

Loss "disappointing": Austock

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... and to support its existing investee (sic) companies," the company said in an announcement. The overall loss "masks" a credible performance in difficult market conditions, said Austock, after units in the company's property business increased 21% in ...

Dressing the windows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... in April. The S&P 500 index closed 4.4% in January despite news that December sales dropped by 1.9%. It would be more credible to note that the annual growth trend in durable goods orders continues to be down - which could push the Fed to QE - and that ...

S&P Capital IQ closes local fund research, wealth services

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... "The information for people to make good investment decisions will still be here," he said. "We have a number of very credible institutions in Australia that produce good research in these areas, so the impact will be relatively small."

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... then Portugal, and then Spain -- European authorities are still to come up with a solution that contains the three C's - credible, concerted and concrete - to the crisis that has now spread to l'economia grande della Italia. Oh wait! Sowee. Think I left ...

Dream on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... the ECB would step up its actions... appear to have been misplaced... We still believe the ECB,... is the only truly credible 'firewall' against liquidity and solvency crises in Europe." Moody's Investor Services: "In substance, 'the agreement' offers ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... that is that it could finally (hopefully) focus the minds of European authorities to, once and for all, come up with a credible concerted action plan to reverse the rot they're in. =========================================== Meet Ben Ong, Financial Standard's ...