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A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... on the way to being resolved and that's a real fuel injection for the market." The fiscal cliff refers to a looming US budget deadline over a series of tax measures and government spending cuts which are due to automatically come into effect from January ...

WA planners reject big dealer groups

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... dealer group, he said. "Long term, I'd like to see 50 plus Synchron firms in Western Australia, but we'll start by making budget first - we must crawl before we walk and run," he said. Melbourne-based Synchron has had members of the management team on ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... rising prospects that the United States can avoid falling back into recession, while traders seemed to take an upcoming EU budget summit in stride. The rally also came a day ahead of a meeting of eurozone finance ministers that could unlock a critical ...

Worried about the US? Buy US Treasuries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... and craft a long-term deficit reduction plan. LONDON - European stock market indices dropped as investors focused on US budget talks to avert a fiscal crisis that could see hundreds of billions of dollars in automatic tax hikes and spending cuts tip ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... Shamu said he thought investors were waiting for an announcement out of the US to provide more certainty about tackling its budget deficit issues, including the pending fiscal cliff. The "cliff" refers to worries about a recession affecting the country ...

You did this! No, you did!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... Europe blames the US for the drop in its equity markets last night. "European Stocks Fall on Mounting Concern Over U.S. Budget," says Bloomberg. Wall Street blames Europe for its woes. "Shares sell-off as data confirms euro-zone recession," as per the ...

Spain here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... and Australia's comparative metrics that Standard & Poor's referred to. I only had time to look at the debt to GDP and budget balance to GDP stats and so far... S&P seems to be being truthful. Based on tradingeconomics.com data, Spain has debts amounting ...

Federal election to compound market uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
The Australian election will put the giant mining and banking sectors at risk of regulatory reform while investors are entering a period of heightened uncertainty, according to a recent report from Political Monitor, a political risk research and advisory ...