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Contagion has already happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
Darn! Should have bought instead of sold yesterday! This will be that all too familiar refrain from many market pundits who got swept away from the sensationalisation of the Greece. Worse, others -- like US Marines -- just followed the crowd. As in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... analyst David Taylor said there had been broad gains in the morning's trade. "The sharemarket is stretching its legs after a nice weekend," Mr Taylor said. "There are broad-based gains, but most of the activity is amongst the energy producers and the ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... sights on 10 per cent growth this year. It shall be so. Because of China, Australia is growing nicely thank you very much. So nice that some are now predicting kRudd's budget to return to surplus earlier than the government's 2015 timeline. The Commonwealth ...

Ambassador searches for additional FM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... Carson. The firm isn't limiting its scope to overseas fund managers and is also searching the local market. "It would also be nice to have a local manager as well but most local fund managers are well known and need us because they usually come from ...

Hall charts new value investing model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... approach to value investing is no longer useful due to the global financial crisis. "We used to think we were fishing in a nice smooth pond and it was a gentle process of reeling in the fish and we found out that we're operating in this ocean that has ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... quiet and will be around Asia, as well, because it's Chinese New Year," Mr Foulsham said. "The big miners are lower after a nice little run up last week, which was the best performing week for the market that we've seen for a while. "There's been a bit ...

Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
"Eat my shorts!" (Bart Simpson). Those who continue to hold a dim view of the Australian economy are fast dwindling. More have fallen by the wayside yesterday after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released another "beautiful set of numbers." ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... and France's AXA SA for AXA Asia Pacific also were providing stimulus to the market, he said. "I think the market's got a nice little tailwind for the day," Mr Taylor said. "We've had such a lack of activity in news flow, so when any activity comes along ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... securities, Treasury securities, commercial paper, and other assets from Wall Street. Those purchases, by the way, led to some nice profits for the Wall Street banks and dealers who sold them to you, and the G.S.E. purchases seem to be illegal since ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
LUV is the word. Yes, LUV is gradually becoming the flavour of the financial markets these days. But what is LUV? No, it is not the SMS version of the 'I heart you' variety'. LUV stands for the path of global economic growth. Just last week the Organisation ...