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Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... summit" scheduled for Thursday. Yeah sure! And pigs can fly! Hold on...yes, it must be because of the PIGS. The financial markets certainly thought so...and they liked it. Trichet's early return flight prompted speculation that Greek salvation is at ...

Public policy to reshape investment risk: PIMCO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... policy will wield a bigger hand in portfolio construction as governments play a more interventionist role in financial markets, a leading fixed income expert warned. Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer and co-chief investment officer at PIMCO ...

VFMC underperforms across four asset classes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... over one per cent. Both these portfolios benefited from the recovery in credit spreads, said VFMC. A rebound in financial markets resulted in the group's December quarter funds under management (FUM) rising by over $1 billion to $35 billion. This result ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... The European Union approved the austerity measures. Hot potato. With the Greek problem seemingly attended to, financial markets passed the hot potato to Portugal, sending its bond yield premium over German bunds to its highest level since 1997. Spain ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... now on the verge of deflating. Especially considering that the renewed uncertainty in the global economy and financial markets have not been able to stop gold's deceleration thus far. Gold appears to be confirming the slow growth - therefore benign inflation ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... meeting for 2010 is ended. There's a picture in my head of RBA Governor and his Board pointing a finger on the financial markets saying, "you don't tell us what to do?" And by doing what it did yesterday, the RBA sent a message that it doesn't pay to ...

ASIC power boost could trigger witch-hunts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... seek to profit from these types of market offences that behaviour that undermines the proper functioning of our financial markets will not be tolerated," said Minister Bowen in a press statement.

One down, more to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... again, the Fed's tenor has positive written all over it. Read this one: "In light of improved functioning of financial markets, the Federal Reserve will be closing the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, the Commercial ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... levels seen during the boom days of the early to mid 2000s, indicating continued growth expansion. However, financial markets are yet to be fully convinced. Some use the "this time it's different" argument that interest rates are kept low because of ...

Stimulexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... -- looked at another way, 6.9 million workers lost their jobs last year. Jobless claims have again risen. And financial markets were surprised that US consumer confidence and retail spending didn't print as they expected? And this is what's confusing ...