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Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... inflation - in early February proved even worse than they expected. The Dow jumped by 1.0%, the S&P 500 index by 1.3% and the Nasdaq Composite by 1.9% the day the music should have died when the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) confirmed that inflation ...

SuperConcepts enhances document management system

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... SMSF software and services provider said it consolidated a number of its applications to one platform with the help of NASDAQ-listed business application developer Progress. Groeneveld at the time said the partnership has enabled SuperConcepts to meet ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street wails on inflation indications

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... perfectly rational rationales behind the previous week's big one-day fall on Wall Street - DJIA down 2.5%; S&P 500 down 2.0%; Nasdaq down 2%; Russell 2000 down 2.1%. But if the current ructions on Wall Street continues, you can bet your bottom dollar ...

Lazard chief executive steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... numerous roles in financial services for about 30 years, having entered the industry as a market surveillance analyst at NASDAQ in 1987. He was also director, head of international equities at State Super Financial Services (now StatePlus) and head of ...

Chief economist update: The spook on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... had tumbled, sold off and crushed overnight. The final tally showed the S&P 500 index down 1.1%; the Dow down 1.5%, the Nasdaq 0.9% and the Russell 2000 1%. The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker all blamed the bond market as the yield on 10-year ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... 2.9% print. Certainly, this should put some doubt on Wall Street at the very least. Instead, the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq went on their merry record breaking ways. For sure it should, if Wall Street was investing for the December 2017 quarter ...

SuperConcepts ramps up digital transformation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... (SMSF) software and services provider announced it consolidated many of its applications to one platform with the help of NASDAQ-listed business application developer Progress. Chief technical officer Kurt Groeneveld said the partnership has enabled ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... It's all right." -- The Beatles Wall Street again went on a record breaking run last week with the S&P 500, the DJIA, the Nasdaq Composite and the Russell 2000 all finishing at all-time highs... and for good reasons. Growth is going and inflation is ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... all over the financial headlines one day after another. Less focused on was the fact that the S&P 500, the DJIA and the Nasdaq all recorded only one down month for the entire year - a record in itself - and these, despite geopolitical concerns, the threat ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... first week of 2018 tally shows all four major Wall Street equity indices - S&P 500 (+2.6%), Dow Jones Industrials (+2.3%), Nasdaq Composite (+3.4%), Russell 2000 (+1.6%) -- surged to new record highs; so has the FTSE-100 index (+0.47%); the All Ordinaries ...