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RBA decisions decisions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... taper off, taper... After so many days of riding this see and saw and saw and see of market speculation, you, I and Irene (and yes, you too Stuart) have become experts at discerning the why's and wherefores for the ups and downs on Wall Street. Wall ...

More flip flopping ahead for Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... non-farm payrolls -- set for release. You know the drill: better-than-expected outcome equals...; disappointing ones equal... Yes Virginia, markets have been reduced to this -- second guessing the Fed's hand with every single data point that comes its ...

AFS goes into liquidation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
The Australian Financial Services (AFS) Group has been placed into voluntary liquidation, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The resolution to wind up the company was made yesterday by creditors. At the same time ...

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... implications for the global economy" and whose 2013 economic growth outlook it slashed to minus 0.6% from minus 0.1% six months ago. Yes sir, it's the eurozone. According to Bloomberg, the Stoxx Europe 600 index "is is heading for a 2.3 percent advance ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... yield "had climbed to 2.23 percent, the highest level since April 5, 2012" yesterday. And what made it jump on 5 April 2012? Yes Virginia, it was because of QE3 speculations...but that time, it was whether or not the Fed would announce QE3. On that day ...

Pipelines the safe bet in the shale gas revolution

JAMES FERYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
The US shale gas revolution will offer considerable low risk investment opportunities over the coming two decades, according to Magellan Asset Management senior investment analyst Jowell Amores. "There's going to be a lot of winners we expect from the ...

Direct insurance not a competitor of retail: Zurich

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Direct insurance is offering a different product than advised insurance and is not competing directly for its market share, according to Zurich Life head of Marketing Richard Dunkerley. "The statement that direct insurance is cheaper than retail insurance ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... of the biggest guns in the field. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Jordan over the weekend, Joseph Stigliz - yes, him, the Nobel prize wining economist - declared that QE is "the only stimulus" and that, "Clearly the economy is not back ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
"Bye, bye miss American pie..." and pastries from Japan and China. Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town dropped like flies over the past 24 hours. It would have been easy to put this down to the usual garden variety correction were ...

Yuan to float free, in our dreams

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013