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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... about half a per cent lower, which follows similar-sized losses on Wall Street on Friday night. Comments from China's president Xi Jinping over the weekend have concerned some investors about the rate of economic growth in the world's second largest ...

Ready for another take off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Is this a dead cat bounce or the early stages of another move higher? To be sure, it's only been three days...three straight days that the S&P 500 has turned its downtrend into a trend upwards. Even accounting for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... Australia is due to release financial aggregates for May. In Perth, WA Premier Colin Barnett, BHP Billiton iron ore president Jimmy Wilson, Fortescue Metals Group chief executive Nev Power and Santos WA and NT vice president John Anderson are scheduled ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... first quarter real GDP growth to an annualised rate of 1.8% (from 2.4% previously), Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond president Jeffrey Lacker said that this is as good as it gets for the economy. "The economy is telling us this is about all we're capable ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
Times like these, I can't tell if the financial market commentariat are just thick or simply plain stupid. Wall Street's up last night - and big time at that - because one 'clever' writer put it down to better than expected US data releases...and the ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... deploy some official to unwind the fear that Bernanke's "tapering soon" rhetoric created, along comes China. New York Fed president Bill Dudley remarked in his speech at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) 2013 Annual General Meeting in Basel ...

State Street appoints head of active investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... the boundaries between fixed income disciplines are blurring and that a broad view is beneficial," SSgA executive vice president and chief investment officer Rick Lacaille said. SSgA is expanding its fixed income investments in areas such as structured ...

Wall Street to stage cyberattack wargame drill

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... manage and fight off. Explaining why SIFMA is taking cyber attack threats so seriously, Randy Snook, SIFMA executive vice president of business policy and practices, told the SIFMA Tech conference in New York this week that in 2011 alone the FBI investigated ...

Ben's all that matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... and the European Union, or reports of another Labor leadership broil in Australia or even the viral video of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking in English...but nothing else matters for financial market players and practitioners today, tomorrow ...

IFM beefs up Debt Investment team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... research and deal analysis in support of IFM's infrastructure debt capability in London. She was previously assistant vice president for Restructuring Business Support with Barclays, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from George Washington University. She ...