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Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017

... reached on 7 August; The Dow is up 11.3% and just 0.6% from the all-time high registered on the same day (7 August); the Nasdaq has reached a fresh record high, producing a 19.5% gain this year to date. To be sure, the second estimate of US GDP showed ...

Japanese broker targets Aussie SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER | MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017

... the oldest online broker in Asia. In 2011, Monex acquired TradeStation in the US and at that time it was registered on NASDAQ - it remains the sixth largest online broker in the US. Monex is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is the third largest ...

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BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017

Wall Street's on a tear with all of the equity market's benchmark indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq; Russell 2000 - hitting record highs last week. The most proximate cause is, of course, the strong June quarter earnings results. According to Factset ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017

... gauging from the heavy selling on Wall Street and Europe overnight. The S&P 500 index closed 0.9% lower last night (the Nasdaq even more, down 1.4%) while the Stoxx Europe fell by 1.3%. [To see Ben's Australian private sector credit analysis, click here.] ...

ASX creates more opportunities for investors

EMMA RAPAPORT | THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017

... recently listed Israeli companies offered to tell others publicly about the benefits of an ASX listing. He had rejected Nasdaq (too big), London's AIM (second board equals second class) and further VC funding (not sustainable), before concluding ASX ...

One small rise in rates, one giant step towards normalisation

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017

... just love it when things turn out as expected? Wall Street surely did. US equities jumped -- Dow up 0.5%, S&P up 0.84%, Nasdaq up 0.7%, Russell 2000 up 1.5% -- the VIX index dropped by 5.5% and instead of climbing, the US dollar index fell by 1.1% and ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017

... optimism among workers of landing jobs and the economic strength. The gains in US equities -- Dow up 0.2%, S&P up 0.3%, Nasdaq up 0.4%, Russell 2000 up 0.4% -- and the 5.2% drop in the VIX index to a reading of 11.66 show that investors widely welcome ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017

... Street's major equity market indices closed at record highs - the Dow at 21,115.55 points; the S&P 500 at 2395.96 points; the Nasdaq at 5,904.03 points and the Russell 2000 at 1,413.64 points - on 1 March 2017. This was the day US president Trump addressed ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016

... interest rates further down into the negative. Wall Street rallied - S&P up 1.1%; Dow up 0.9%; Russell 2000 up 1.4% and the Nasdaq up 1.0% to an all-time high - on the day the Fed refrained from lifting the fed funds rate. And sure enough, where Wall ...

BetaShares launches cybersecurity ETF

ALEX BURKE | THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016

... code: HACK) targets larger, established companies such as Symantec and Cisco, as well as fast-growing firms like recent Nasdaq listing FireEye. BetaShares said the sector overall is growing at 8% per annum since 2011 and is currently valued at US$82 ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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