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China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
The suspense is chillingly killing... you could almost taste it by just looking at Wall Street's performance last night. It was decidedly undecided. Two ups and two downs. The Dow and the Nasdaq both finished 0.1% on the up while the S&P 500 and the ...

Van Eyk starts due diligence with potential buyer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... for tomorrow at 11am. The administrator would not confirm who the potential buyer was, but told Financial Standard that 40-odd parties initially expressed interest in the van Eyk Australian business. Lonsec Fiscal would not comment on unconfirmed reports ...

AFA questions ASIC life report

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... He told the media that there were questions over the methology of the report and also the sample size. "There were only 70-odd advisers, which is not enough to be representative," he said. "It is a targeted piece of research that defines very tightly ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
What do you do when you reach a peak? You take a breather, enjoy the view and smile (or LOL) at all the naysayers who bet, 'nay, you'll never make it'. That's exactly what Wall Street did overnight. The S&P 500 index hardly budged - up 0.01% -- to close ...

Billionaire makers: The cities growing the world's wealthiest

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... billionaire today is hovering around 63, what this ranking shows is not so much today's entrepreneurial hives, but those of 60 odd years ago," WealthInsight analyst Oliver Williams said. "While some cities - New York and London particularly - have retained ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following solid gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0658 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,615. In Australia, company earnings season continues with ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014

Tens of thousands flock to Omaha

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... imagine a successor changing that in a material way." Some critics have suggested it would be best to break apart Berkshire's 80-odd subsidiaries to make them easier to manage. Buffett disagreed. "There are real advantages to having the company together," ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... good - well, sort of. Euro area inflation edged up to 0.7% in the 12 months to April from the four year low of 0.5% in March. Odd news because it lessens the threat of deflation. Sort of, because one month's figure does not a trend make and, April's ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... (http://www.fuw.ch/article/i-see-speculative-bubbles-like-in-2007/ ) "The first thing I would worry about are asset prices. Every asset price you could think of is in very odd territory. Equity prices are extremely high if you at valuation measures such ...