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Half-filled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
... a rot. Goldman Sachs reported that profits for the second quarter dropped by 82 per cent from a year ago. This is ugly enough by itself, but even uglier considering that this was lower than market forecasts and that GS' revenues dropped by 31 per cent ...

US Congress passes Wall Street reforms

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... market reaction in the US have been critical. The US political and financial commentariat argue the reforms aren't tough enough and, contrary to what the supporters of the reforms have said, is a mere tinkering of the system with most of the regulatory ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... settlement, which would remove uncertainty that has hovered around Goldman since the charges were announced on April 16, was enough to make traders temporarily set aside their concerns about the economy. More uncertainty was lifted from the market late ...

Super-sized super powers up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... in," said Hill. "It is scale. Some super funds locally are doing a lot of things manually today because they're not big enough to invest in more sophisticated systems. If you're larger, you have sufficient scale to manage the money yourself and you're ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the double-dip and that big one - a huge collapse in share prices. We've waited long enough, must as well pack our bags and start buying. This is the mirror image of what happened a few months back when market agents ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... that the world is going to end because US consumer confidence had fallen sharply... because employment is not growing fast enough? Where the bloody hell were they? But I discovered that just as employment is a lagging indicator, US retail spending led ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... last week. After spending much of the day deep in negative territory, stocks recouped some losses in late trades, but not enough to stop a sixth consecutive day of losses. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 41.49 points (0.42 per cent) to ...

Down on old news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... that private sector jobs growth has increased for five consecutive months now. Good. Good? Bad? So-so? We'll find out soon enough -- when the official US non-farm payrolls report is released tomorrow night.

Govt extends drawdown relief for account-based pensions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... calls on the Government to make these lower drawdown levels permanent. A 'temporary' respite in drawdown levels will not be enough to allow many 65-80 year olds to fund the lifestyle that they had planned when they retired," he said in a statement. This ...

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... personal income, personal spending and personal savings all increased in May. Read, US wages and salaries are rising fast enough to allow consumers to simultaneously spend and save. US personal income increased by 0.4 per cent in May, personal spending ...