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Wen Confucius meets Sun Tzu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... ancestor, Sun Tzu, whose "The Art of War" advises that, "Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as heaven and earth".

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
Australian shares have posted strong gains after better-than-expected trade data boosted already buoyant mining stocks. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data showing a surge in exports and a widening trade surplus gave further impetus to mining ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher. At 0632 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was up five points at 4255. No major economic news is expected on Monday. In equities news, Roc Oil, Linc Energy ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
Australian shares climb after market-beating results from Apple helped bourses shrug off growing concerns that Greece may default on its debt. European and Wall Street fell overnight after eurozone officials rejected a final offer from the Greece's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Australian shares have trimmed early gains after disappointing jobs data weighed on optimism driven by strong energy results and stronger-than-expected results from Goldman Sachs. Market-beating results from Woodside Petroleum and Santos pushed energy ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... to the momentum in the big mining construction projects.'' So what do we do now? Take all our investments out of planet earth and send it to Mars? For I know of only one "downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman ...

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
Well this is it folks, my last piece for the Year 2011 - the year most of us would like to forget. And for my finale, I'd like to take you back to the beginning. At the start of 2011, I wrote: "If you think 2010 was a challenging year, early indications ...

Prettiest of them all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most beautiful of all?" The year 2011 is almost done and by the looks of it, it's turning out to be an annus horribilis for growth assets - equities and commodities - but a good year for defensive investments ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open lower, following the overnight lead of Wall Street and the European markets. Investors appear cautious, tracking Italian and Greek political developments as the eurozone debt crisis rumbles into Spain ...

Machines of loving grace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... minus 3% for the S&P 500 and plus or minus 5% plus for Europe. These days, 1.5% is the oscillation we get when we don't get earth-shattering news. And that's exactly what we got from the US Federal Reserve last night - much ado about nada. No change ...