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ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014

"Maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe never I'm confessing That I'm guessing all the time." Edna Savage's immortal 1959 classic "Maybe This Year" provides an apt background song heading into last night's European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014

... benchmark is now at a four-year low." Where oil prices go between now and the next OPEC meet in June next year is anybody's guess. All things being equal and remaining as they are - i.e. US oil shale supply continues to increase and world growth continues ...

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014

The biggest developed economy in the world growing at a revised annualised rate of 3.9% (from an initial guess of 3.5%) in the third quarter and Wall Street gives it a big gaping yawn? What gives? The tale of the Wall Street tape showed the S&P 500 ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014

... satisfied, Adam's prediction is looking like one big mighty stretch. Not only a stretch, it's simply wrong if Westpac's present guess proves to be on the ball. Westpac's crystal ball says the dollar-A would head the other way - rise to US$0.88 next month ...

Bullish sentiment at 4-year high, expect zero return in six months

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014

... before. This is the lowest reading since March last year and below its long-term average of 30.7%. Who's right? Who's wrong? Guess we'll have to find out six months from now (around May 2015). But perhaps we won't have to wait that long to know. Charles ...

Market wrap

AAP | WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014

... more selling," he said. "People are starting to look ahead to the next day in terms of Asian trading and trying to second guess what's happening to iron ore prices." BHP dropped 57 cents to $33.60, Rio Tinto shed 86 cents to $59.65 and Fortescue Metals ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014

What had been a mathematically-derived, guessed at and/or expected a,-1 trillion expansion in the European Central Bank's (ECB) balance sheet has just become fact - ECB President Mario Draghi promised - and it's unanimous. Most would have probably read ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014

The suspense is chillingly killing... you could almost taste it by just looking at Wall Street's performance last night. It was decidedly undecided. Two ups and two downs. The Dow and the Nasdaq both finished 0.1% on the up while the S&P 500 and the ...

QEnd

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014

... financial markets anticipate the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to ramp up their respective QEs. I guess we just have to wait for the Fed's fresh take on this. The latest American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) sentiment ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014

Say it again, Homer. "I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!" For those who've just tuned in, Wall Street was going, even sending the S&P 500 index up by 1.3% overnight, until it slipped... on oil. The action du' nuit is captured in Bloomberg's ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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