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Uncle Ben to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... the official communiquA(C) for confirmation of course, but I sense that it'll contain the same ones we've heard oh so many times - calls for Europe to fix itself and promises and pledges that the G-20 would do something instead of actually doing something. ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... S&P 500 up 0.1%. However, it was more sinister in Europe with the Euro Stoxx 50 dropping by 1.2% at the close. At other times, financial markets would simply dismiss this as selling on news. But wait, hang on, it was - selling on bad news, that is. For ...

CFD turnover rises amid dollar decline

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... German 30 CFD, based on the DAX continues to grow in popularity, according to report data, with May turnover more than 2.5 times the average for the 11 months to May, reflecting increasing interest in European markets, by Spooner's reckoning. "Australian ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... language and political and fiscal and economic policies -- the very same ones that got attempts at unification undone many times in the past. The euro could break up eventually but since there is the expectation that it could, most have are already prepared ...

Former AFA president mourned

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... before a number of government enquiries. "He served on the Board of the AFA Foundation and led us through some very tough times and out the other side. His loss is keenly felt by the entire AFA community." As 2002 South Australian director, Mr Murphy ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... Spain' headlines and found that there's none as of yet. Surprise, surprise. Sowee, but I've already lost track of how many times European authorities have done this over the past three years - announce something, anything, when the going gets tough and ...

Super FUM up 3.6pc

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... trillion, tracking the growth rate of GDP that was announced yesterday. Public sector funds are, however, growing almost 4-times faster as 14%, reflecting cash injections into the sector or structural changes to how the regulator APRA measures the market. ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... four years after Greenspan made his speech. In contrast, the S&P 500 index is currently trading at a P/E multiple of 12.9 times - below their long-term average of 16.1. A reversion to this implies that the S&P 500 should be trading at 1,604.4 - a 24.8% ...

Consortium buys Challenger Infrastructure Fund assets

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... of tank storage facilities for chemicals, with operations in the US, China and Europe. The sale price represents about 10 times the earnings CIF expects to derive from its stake in LBC in the 2011/12 financial year. After costs of the transaction, CIF ...

New switching device cuts latency

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
Trading times are on the brink of becoming even quicker with today's launch of the world's fastest switching device with a latency of 130 nanoseconds. "There was a time not that long ago when nobody cared about network devices and they were viewed as ...