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Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... securities, Treasury securities, commercial paper, and other assets from Wall Street. Those purchases, by the way, led to some nice profits for the Wall Street banks and dealers who sold them to you, and the G.S.E. purchases seem to be illegal since ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
LUV is the word. Yes, LUV is gradually becoming the flavour of the financial markets these days. But what is LUV? No, it is not the SMS version of the 'I heart you' variety'. LUV stands for the path of global economic growth. Just last week the Organisation ...

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
Thud! Thud! Thud! This is the sound of my head banging on my desk. For I'm confused - really very confused. Wall Street again dropped big time last night - well to be more accurate, just bigger than the smaller daily falls we've gone accustomed to over ...

Ganging up on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
What's it going to be? A strong dollar or a weak dollar policy? The short answer a strong dollar in words, a weak one in deed. Yesterday, I wrote about Uncle Timmy Geithner telling Asia that, "It's very important to the United States, to the economic ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... full-fledged recovery. "...companies from Office Depot Inc. to Coach Inc. posted worse-than-estimated results" sounds scary. Nice spin. Gives the impression that almost all companies that reported last night were duds. Nothing could be further from the ...

Capstone FP eyes more practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Capstone Financial Planning is using the dealer group's independent label to attract more financial planning practices to its ranks - with over 10 practices expected to join in the next 12 months. Grant O'Riley, managing director at Capstone Financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... the moment," Mr Bishop told AAP. "The banks are doing well, despite all the analysts saying they are dreadful. "Its a very nice market, from where we've come from, it's gone up a hundred points this week. "It's great to see some sunshine." The major ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was weaker at noon, despite gains made by Rio Tinto and gold miners. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 16.5 points, or 0.43 per cent, at 3,808.1, while the broader All Ordinaries had lost 10.4 points, or 0.27 ...

The good in the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
Sometime ago, I quoted Camp Quality's - an Australian children's family cancer charity organization - TV ad, 'Don't underestimate the power of optimism'. Wall Street lived this statement overnight with both the S&P 500 and the Dow rising by more than ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... the stock rebounded. "People have drilled down into it (the profit result) and realised it isn't that bad. They have had a nice recovery," Mr Morrow said. At 1209 AEST, shares in NAB were down two cents to $22.02, after falling as low as $21.14. Commonwealth ...