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Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
Flat. This was how Wall Street ended while we were sleeping after climbing non-stop for six straight days. With the investment environment still fluid, investors decided last night to exchange some of their paper profits on equities and commodities ...

Age of greener capitalism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... clearly not sustainable. "If we can find 20 or so investors with half a million each invested in the fund, that would be enough," said Forbes.

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... better-than-expected reported third quarter earnings by US companies - reportedly 80 per cent of which beat estimates. This was just not enough to soothe nerves rattled by speculation that the kind Uncle Sam and Uncle Benny would stop dishing out the ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... was the Fed's message to all investors and would-be investors. We got your back. And if near zero cost of funding is not enough, the Fed announced that it would buy US$1.75 trillion of agency mortgage-backed securities and US$175 billion of agency debt ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... 1.5 per cent instead of the 0.5 per cent contraction forecast in the May Budget. This is because Australia is fortunate enough to sit right next to industrialising China. According to RBA Governor Glen Stevens, "Growth in China has been very strong ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... Royal Bank of Scotland got a $US41 billion ($A45.3 billion) infusion from the government. A rise in factory orders wasn't enough to boost sentiment. The Commerce Department said orders to US factories rebounded in September after dropping in August. ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... good news GDP report should provide a lift in confidence that had been slowly eroding over the past fee weeks. This may be enough to sustain growth into the fourth quarter and beyond. But what if? Oh, shut up.

Elusive 10K

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... results topped market expectations -"exceeding the record pace of 72.3 per cent for the period ended in June." If this is enough to send the Dow up, over and far above 10K, what does? The Dow has seen this all before. It first breached 10K back in March ...

Frontier takes tough stance against asset-based fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... missive about reducing fees. In fact, some managers may earn more under this arrangement, but only if you perform well enough to justify it," wrote the asset consultant.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... half a per cent by noon, after a slump in US markets on Friday and as investors judge the recent run up to have gone far enough for now. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 26.3 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 4,833.1 while the broader ...