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Show me the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... quarter reporting season when Meredith produced a rabbit out of the hat - a surprise upgrade when most walled up in the Street was pessimistic on earnings - her revised recommendation is well...ho hum. Meredith merely voiced out current market thinking. ...

Westpac moves to wholly own Ascalon

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... offshore products across alternative assets and global equities. "We're not going to be a business with the biggest FUM in the street, our businesses will be small, simply structured where their team will deliver alpha," he said. St.George Bank founded ...

Priced, but not for a V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... the banks is not as muddy as it was two quarters ago, but it's still not clear." But I bet - no, I'm sure - that if the Street rallied the previous night, the quote would print, "The future for the banks is not as muddy as it was two quarters ago." See ...

Eslake leaves ANZ

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... ANZ. "Saul's views are not only sought in the boardrooms of some of the regions largest companies but by the man of the street and government officials and ministers alike," he said. Prior to joining ANZ in 2005, Hogan worked as chief economist and head ...

Positive surprise beats Meredith's surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... about a market wanting to come out after four weeks in hibernation. Meredith just gave it a push. And it came to pass. The Street expected Goldman Sach's earnings to come in at US$3.65 a share for the second quarter. Meredith topped that, issuing a buy ...

Timbercorp investors get $50k aid

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... TGG, which opposes the winding up of Timbercorp's agribusiness schemes following its collapse. "The average person in the street has no idea what it means when a business goes into receivership, they have no idea what their options are "We're trying ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... July holiday in the US. Half would have downed the 'Great American Lager' in celebration of the June quarter surge on the Street. The other half - those looking at the week's and the past month's disappointing performance - used the Bud as anaesthetic ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... inevitable that stocks in Australia and the Asian region would succumb to gravity. Pause that refreshes. Overnight action on the Street confirmed my evocation that this presented another buying opportunity - a better entry point - for those who refused ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Just less than a year ago, households, businesses and financial markets were bracing for crude oil at US$200 a barrel. And in July 2008, this fear threatened to become a reality when crude oil prices topped US$147.27 a barrel in the international markets. ...

Streetwise $26m fraudster awaits sentence

Ten months after his arrest in the US, disgraced Streetwise property developer Kovelan Bangaru has finally appeared in court last week to face charges of misappropriating more than $26 million in investor funds. Bangaru pleaded guilty to 11 offences ...