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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 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
Australian stocks have opened flat as market players wait for key economic data from China. At 1030 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 2.7 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 4,292.9 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
There were really no fresh talking points I could find on cyberspace last night, just a flipping of the flop in sentiment seen over the past few days. For last night we got news that US unemployment claims came in a thousand heads better than expected. ...

You beauty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
Looks like desperation did something nice to Wayne's budgeting prowess - digging deep, Australia's Federal Treasurer was able to pull something out of the hat, enabling the government to return the "budget to surplus on time and as promised". While ...

Fearing the unknown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
Phew! For a while there, I thought we were all toast as we sat on the front seats of another twist in the plot of the ever-evolving European tragedy. Equity markets around the world copped a thrashing - a eurothrashing - as elections in France and Greece ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
US Payrolls. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Yes Virginia, the greatly speculated, the much awaited, the indicator that'll set the tone in the financial markets over the next four weeks, that mother of all eco stats -- the US Non-farm Payrolls ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
Those looking for a clearer picture of the state of the US economy will be forgiven for ending up none the wiser following last night's data releases out of America. On this one trading day alone, we witnessed precisely the reason behind Wall Street's ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012

CPA responds to advice exemption

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
CPA Australia has called on the government to extend an exemption for accountants in line with that granted to financial advisers yesterday. The decision, announced by Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury, extends financial advisers' current exemption ...

Sure 25 but maybe 50

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
Ho-hum. There was nothing really all that interesting in the news that flowed out of overnight markets last night. It's the same old, same old. Data out of Europe only confirmed what we already knew and expected all along, Spain's now officially in ...