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Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... gauging from the heavy selling on Wall Street and Europe overnight. The S&P 500 index closed 0.9% lower last night (the Nasdaq even more, down 1.4%) while the Stoxx Europe fell by 1.3%. [To see Ben's Australian private sector credit analysis, click here.] ...

ASX creates more opportunities for investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... recently listed Israeli companies offered to tell others publicly about the benefits of an ASX listing. He had rejected Nasdaq (too big), London's AIM (second board equals second class) and further VC funding (not sustainable), before concluding ASX ...

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... just love it when things turn out as expected? Wall Street surely did. US equities jumped -- Dow up 0.5%, S&P up 0.84%, Nasdaq up 0.7%, Russell 2000 up 1.5% -- the VIX index dropped by 5.5% and instead of climbing, the US dollar index fell by 1.1% and ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... optimism among workers of landing jobs and the economic strength. The gains in US equities -- Dow up 0.2%, S&P up 0.3%, Nasdaq up 0.4%, Russell 2000 up 0.4% -- and the 5.2% drop in the VIX index to a reading of 11.66 show that investors widely welcome ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... Street's major equity market indices closed at record highs - the Dow at 21,115.55 points; the S&P 500 at 2395.96 points; the Nasdaq at 5,904.03 points and the Russell 2000 at 1,413.64 points - on 1 March 2017. This was the day US president Trump addressed ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... interest rates further down into the negative. Wall Street rallied - S&P up 1.1%; Dow up 0.9%; Russell 2000 up 1.4% and the Nasdaq up 1.0% to an all-time high - on the day the Fed refrained from lifting the fed funds rate. And sure enough, where Wall ...

BetaShares launches cybersecurity ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... code: HACK) targets larger, established companies such as Symantec and Cisco, as well as fast-growing firms like recent Nasdaq listing FireEye. BetaShares said the sector overall is growing at 8% per annum since 2011 and is currently valued at US$82 ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... the stock averages, on average, perform the poorest. Since 1970, the S&P 500 has fallen by 0.7%, the Dow by 1.1% and the Nasdaq (since 1971) by 1.0% -- on average - during Septembers. Blame the European Central Bank (ECB) for setting the negative tone ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... economies, something strange in our neighbourhood happened... Wall Street produced a trifecta. The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all closed at record highs on the 11th of August - a feat not seen since New Year's Eve 1999. Never mind the comparison ...

Lazard chief steps down after 15 years

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... numerous roles in financial services for nearly 30 years, having entered the industry as a market surveillance analyst at NASDAQ in 1987. He was also director, head of international equities at State Super Financial Services (now StatePlus) and head ...