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"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
Stop looking. There are no ifs, no ands, no ors, and no buts to find, it's getting ugly out there. Oh yes Virginia, the combed over look ugly as events and indicators of the past week suggest that we are coming into, if not already in, a perfect storm. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street and European bourses overnight. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down 11 points at 4,062. In economic news on Friday, The Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower, Wall Street fell more than one per cent and major European markets lost closer to two per cent. At 0800 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 43 points at 4,043. In economic ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
Armageddon. Catastrophe. Lehman Bros moment. GFC mark II. Game over. Funny but... haven't I heard all this before? Let me think. Yeah right. That's it. "Twas about four years ago when Lehman bit the dust. Remember how you - and your neighbours -- felt ...

Bulls run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
Didn't they already ban the running with the bulls in Spain? Ahh yes, my bad. The Spanish region of Catalonia only banned bullfighting, but approved running with them. For bullfighting kills bulls, running with them only kills... ehem, people. I was ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following big falls on US markets overnight and continued political uncertainty in Europe. At 0751 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down 76 points at 4,084. In economic news ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
It is ironic that the country that brought the world the story of the "Sword of Damocles" is itself now that very sword dangling precariously above the heads of world financial markets. Any moment now. Events in Greece over the past few days have jacked ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on US markets overnight and political turmoil in Greece. At 0803 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 32 points at 4,241. In economic news on Wednesday ...

Brogden calls for government agreement on FATCA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
FSC chief John Brogden has called on the Gillard government to provide strong support for the wealth sector ahead of addressing an IRS hearing in Washington DC on the contentious FATCA regime. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regime aims ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
My, my, hey, hey, rock n' roll is here to stay - or in our case Europe's sovereign debt, fiscal deficit, financial, banking, economic, political and social crisis. You name the crisis. One or more members of the Eurozone's got one, or more, or all of ...