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Job woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
"They left me to rot!" For all intents, this could be the rallying cry for the 8.2 million Americans that are now unemployed since the start of the US recession in December 2007. I speak, of course, of 40-year old Jason Rodriguez, a former employee ...

A tale of confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... and disposable income is certainly shot. Pessimism about the US economy is also rising. The WSJ/NBC survey of 1,009 Americans conducted in the period 22-25 October revealed that 58 per cent of respondents say that, "the economic slide still has a ways ...

Joined at the hip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... whose major trading partner is now rebounding China - Canada's economy is closely tied with that of the United States. Americans buy around 80 per cent of Canada's output of goods and services while only a little more than five per cent of Australian ...

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... Asian and oil-producing Middle Eastern countries are supporting keeping interest rates down and low for spendthrift Americans. But as we now learned, this all ended in tears - bucketfuls of it - as the global financial crisis took its toll first on financial ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... cannot be sustained - they are talking of course, about the US but also apply to Europe and Japan - because the number of Americans being handed pink slips continue to grow? Surely the economy is stuff because consumers will not have the confidence to ...

Ignorance is not financial bliss: Fidelity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... knowledge is costing them a lot of retirement money, a new study found. Research from Fidelity Investments show that many Americans are not maximising their retirement savings simply because they don't understand the basic differences between the IRAs ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... quarter financial results. Economic data was positive, with a government report showing the number of newly laid-off Americans filing claims for unemployment insurance fell last week. A report on manufacturing in the New York region also topped expectations. ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... foreign capital into American shores without risking further contraction in the economy. Oh no sir! Not while jobless Americans are still growing in number. Tourists could indeed find themselves computing their spending money in euros or in yens or in ...

FBI hunts down bank fraudsters

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... by the computer, including hacking, fraud and identity theft, with a common greed and shared willingness to victimise Americans. The FBI is grateful for the assistance of its law enforcement partners in the U.S. and the Egyptian government's dedicated ...

October - an E (entry/exit) point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... clunkers' program. Spending would decline in coming months now that this program has ended. Negative spin number 2. Americans are back to their spendthrift habit - spending beyond their means - especially with personal income rising by only 0.2 per cent ...

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Vale Garry Wyatt

KARREN VERGARA
Garry Wyatt, the co-founder and chief executive of Insync Funds Management, has sadly passed away.

NRF appoints inaugural chief investment officer

ELIZA BAVIN
The National Reconstruction Fund has named its first chief investment officer.

First Bitcoin ETF to launch this week on ASX

ANDREW MCKEAN
VanEck will make history this week as the first investment manager to launch a Bitcoin ETF on the ASX.

More Aussies anticipate renting in retirement: Vanguard

ANDREW MCKEAN
An increasing number of Australians expect to be paying off a mortgage or forced to rent in retirement, according to the latest Vanguard How Australia Retires survey.

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