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Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
In droves they returned... the bargain hunters, the bottom fishers and the dip buyers - turning the previous day's see on Wall Street into last night's saw. All are thanking the friendly International Monetary Fund (IMF) for opening up another entry ...

FEATURE: The new financiers of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... infrastructure assets. But the discussion has tended to focus on equity rather than debt. And the reasons for that are easy to guess: infrastructure debt inhabits a little understood world. There is a lot of money to be made if you have the considerable ...

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... have more sustainable circumstances now than we had then."" ""I don't make a living forecasting market levels, but I would guess we have another 10 to 15 percent upside over the next 12 months before the going becomes more difficult," Brian Barish, who ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Here we go again; a parliamentarian proposes a policy response to housing affordability involving superannuation and trade-side interest groups circle the wagons, warning of capital market calamity. Triggering this latest ruckus is that at end July ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
Curses! I warned him did I not? I warned NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen to shush when he "warned of a "high probability" that Russia, using the guise of a humanitarian mission, could intervene militarily in Ukraine". Now everybody's onto it - even ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... crises that supposedly sparked last week's dip and heralds the advent of a more sinister correction in the US equity market. Guess what? Dip buyers only saw the dip and thought it was good and a-shopping they went. This, despite only one of the nominated ...

Fixed it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
The times, they are a-changin'. We've come a long, long way Virginia. Yes, us, Australians all... for the times, they have a-changed. Not so long ago, many were concern over Australian bank's vulnerability to rising interest rates because of their reliance ...

PROFILE: Head of Australian operations at Western Asset Management Anthony Kirkham

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... that I lost one of his share certificates. But it was really my father who introduced me to shares at a very young age. I guess my family had always been investment oriented and my dad always had share investments, which I took on." After finishing his ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... in the local market on Friday. "Gold stocks are one of the only areas to really be improving in a significant manner, I guess because of the safe haven manner of the commodity," he said. "It's normal to see this sort of reaction.... gold stocks going ...

Fed alert to market reaction to Fed action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
"I get knocked down But I get up again You're never going to keep me down." -- Chumbawamba Yes Virginia, we didn't expect anything less 'eh my lady? If it didn't happen overnight, it'll happen tomorrow... or the day after. Wall Street got knocked down ...