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Era of uncertainty plagues global markets

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... Asian bonds are under allocated in clients portfolios," said Briscoe. "From the income side, we don't have the lower bound problem in government bonds in particular so if we are looking for currency appreciation in bonds there is still a lot of runway ...

Dark pools attract larger trades and ASIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... which ASIC is concerned the integrity of price formation will suffer. "By the time everyone agrees on the extent of the problem, we may well have already passed a tipping point," said Tregillis. ASIC has proposed to re-engage with the industry on issues ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open marginally higher on Friday after Wall Street continued a recovery, although it ended relatively flat. Both oil and metals were mixed overnight. On the ASX 24 at 0701 AEST, the June share price index futures ...

Financial services feel cloud benefit

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
A shift towards cloud computing has resulted in significant return on investment, according to a Bloomberg technology survey of financial services companies. Over one hundred chief information officers and technology decision makers from major financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Tuesday on strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight. On the ASX 24 at 0721 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 29 points lower at 4,618. In economics news on Tuesday ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... cent jump in French stocks. Say what? Has the sovereign debt crisis there been resolved? Au contraire, Spain (the big problem child) reportedly wasn't able to sell all the government bonds it wanted to sell even at higher yields. The biggest surprise ...

SMEs turning to advice, slowly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... group Bird Cameron. The Bird Cameron 'Think Big' study of small business attitudes found that the primary superannuation problem for SME owners is their very low superannuation savings adequacy, with 93 per cent concerned they have too little superannuation ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... to deteriorate. What about the mounting US deficit and its "looming" debt crisis? That's the US Treasury's job and its problem. Not the Fed's. The Fed's main concern is employment and inflation. Should conditions get bad enough - although I don't expect ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Tuesday, following falls on Wall Street in both commodities and equities. On the ASX 24 at 0735 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 16 points lower at 4,653. In economics news on Tuesday ...

Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... said the aged pension was the perfect retirement product as it dealt with the problems of longevity and inflation. The problem is that it is means-tested and doesn't provide enough to live on. Cooper said there would likely be more of a swing to annualisation ...