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HNW shell shocked about nest eggs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... director of consulting, said 90 per cent of 'affluent' Australians surveyed between May and June were comfortable they had enough retirement savings and investments. However, he said the firm's October survey revealed only 30 per cent of the same affluent ...

Depression talk ill-informed and ignores history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... risk - off the table," he said. Swanson said that even if the current government incentives don't seem to be working fast enough, history shows that interventionist policies, if they've unleashed soon enough and are large enough, do work. For example ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... has lowered interest rates by a total of 200 basis points to 5.25 per cent in a span of just three months. If this is not enough, it has the wherewithal to cut the official interest rate again. The cheaper Australian currency will also provide support ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.' (Jesse Livermore). While most of us were sleeping (those lucky enough to have their A$1 turn to A$0.80 instead of A$0.20), Wall Street was again going through another of its wild gyrations. In a ...

Period of cleansing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... meantime and just like bear markets of the past, equity prices will continue to bounce up and down as investors try to muster enough nerve to see beyond the present crisis and decide that there is indeed light at the end of the tunnel. Many continue ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... session overnight, as investors worried that recent moves by authorities worldwide to thaw frozen credit markets might not be enough to avert global recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 678.91 points, or 7.33 per cent, to end at 8,579.19 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... since 2003, as investors worried that recent moves by authorities worldwide to thaw frozen credit markets might not be enough to avert global recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 678.91 points, or 7.33 per cent, to 8,579.19. The Nasdaq Composite ...

Rescuing the rescue package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2008
... Congress has reportedly included tax cuts and increased bank account insurance to the bill. Whether these sweeteners are enough for the bail-out plan to get over the House of Representatives hump remains to be seen. While most, if not all, investors ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... optimism that Congress will eventually pass the 'Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.' Equities rallied, albeit not enough to recover all of the previous day's massive losses - after US President George Bush and congressional leaders indicated ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... decreased by 6.9 per cent -- the biggest in 21 years. Financial markets' hopes for some stability while the economy gather enough strength to recover evaporated after the US Congress voted 228 to 205 against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of ...