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Gone in 60 seconds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
Was it as good for you as it was for me? One thing for sure it was better for those who got on instead of the many who got off the other night. Yes, it sells but we're not talking about that. It's the people who got on the equity market train after ...

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Phew! What a relief it is, don't you think? A few more weeks (ok, ok, maybe months) of continued equity market gains and I would have yelled, "irrational exuberance!" Sure, sure, I've been trumpeting the improvements in the major and lesser economies ...

Business as usual at Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
In the wake of several high-profile redundancies across the global organisation, Mercer has said that it is business as usual for its Australian asset-consulting arm. It was revealed at the end of last year that Mercer was abandoning a three-year-old ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... economic news is expected on Monday. In equities news, Santos CEO David Knox, International Energy Agency executive director Maria van der Hoeven and General Manager of Energy Industry Analysis at Rio Tinto Stephen Wilson are all due to address the Australian ...

Franklin Templeton launches new global fixed income fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... to access the strategy's successful track record, which dates back to December 2001, through a pooled investment vehicle. Maria Wilton, managing director of Franklin Templeton Investments Australia, says the launch caps off a successful year for Franklin ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market is set to open higher despite weakness on overseas markets after Spain said it was not preparing a request for a bailout loan. Investors have been anticipating that the Spanish government would ask for help for nearly ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Just when we thought we're done and over with playing the "would they, would they not" guessing came, another one comes along. We played the game last month. Those we bet on to do did. The European Central Bank announced Outright Monetary Transactions. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Australian stocks have opened weaker for the fourth successive day as concerns that Spain could seek a bail-out hit resource equities. At 1015 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 14.6 points, or 0.33 per cent, at 4,347.0 points ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Take one central banker's lack of faith at the recent action of the institution he serves, add rumours that a region threatens to secede from a country in a region that's desperately trying to stay as one, and what do we get? We get a problem Houston. ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
You just gotta love the financial markets -- they don't run out of things to speculate about. With QE speculation over, the guessing game has shifted to whether or not QEs will work to bring back animal spirits and lead to a longer lasting and durable ...