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Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs) programme that's designed to eliminate the tail risk from the market. It could be both. Yes they are working! Just look at the drop in yields investors demand to lend to those big deficit and highly indebted sovereign ...

Austerity can be hazardous to your health

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Financial markets give the budget a big yawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... reports like Spain's 12-month borrowing costs hitting 3-year lows at last night's auction and...wait for it, Fitch upgrading (yes, upgrade) Greece's sovereign debt rating to B- from CCC. But back to the budget and financial markets. Australian bonds ...

Will stocks follow Fed exit to the exits?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... Fed now has sketched a roadmap to the exits but that the question on when it starts on its journey is still "being debated". Yes folks, the Fed has reportedly punched in the coordinates to the QE exit on its GPS. Frankly Frank, I still don't get what ...

No need for more super bureaucracy: Cormann

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
There was no need for more bureaucracy to protect Australian's superannuation savings, shadow minister for Financial Services Mathias Cormann has said in response to the government's announcement of a superannuation charter. Cormann was also critical ...

Exchange-traded government bonds to trade on ASX

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
Retail investors will have a wider investment universe to choose from with exchange-traded government bonds (AGBs) set to trade on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). In a statement yesterday, the ASX announced that exchange-traded AGBs will be ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013

EQT mulls position after Perpetual move on Trust Co

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
Equity Trustees (EQT) is set to make a formal response on its position, after Perpetual announced to the market yesterday that it proposed to buy 100% of The Trust Company ordinary shares. In statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) this ...

A long two-month wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013

SFG pursues mergers on WHK suspension

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
Financial advice firm SFG Australia (SFGA) is actively pursuing mergers with other accountancy firms, after making the decision to withdraw its proposal with WHK (WHK) Group yesterday. SFGA managing director Tony Fenning told Financial Standard that ...