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Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Wall Street welcomed March with a big drop with the three major indices down about 1.5 per cent on the day. Oh boy, here we go again. News services were all over the place blaming the renewed spike in crude. Oil spiked - again! - because of reports ...

Movers and shakers of 2010

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
Regulatory reforms, politics, and high profile M&A activity dominated the financial services landscape this year - Financial Standard looks back at the stories that shook up the industry this year. It was an extraordinary year in Australian politics. ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
So much for Australia's vision of itself as a world financial centre as Oprah has shown that all the world wants from us is Kangaroos, Koalas, sunny beaches and iron ore. Or is that the wrong way to look at the frenzy now supposedly gripping the nation ...

More turbulence ahead: De Bever

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
The former chief investment officer of the Victorian Funds Management Corporation says that "bonds are an accident waiting to happen" and that the global economy is on the cusp of "a huge structural shift, probably one that we haven't seen since 1900." ...

ASX200 to hit 5,600: forecast

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
Advisers reviewing the Aussie equities portfolios of their clients can look forward to the round of forecasts coming through this time of the year - with one fund manager predicting as much as a 20 per cent upside in the ASX200 over the course of 2011. ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
"Wall Street drops on China price worries" - afr.com.au. "Wall Street slumps on China concerns" - new.com.au. "Stocks, Commodities Slide on China Concern; Treasuries Tumble" - Bloomberg.com. "US shares drop on China inflation worries" - Reuters via ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
ow that's more like it! It feels good doesn't it? This may be the one we've been waiting for when something, somehow happens that short circuits the cycle of fear that had been feeding on itself for months now. Although, he didn't say much that the ...

Hold, Fold or Run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
"Three coins in a fountain... which one will the fountain bless?" ( Frank Sinatra) It was a down day again on Wall Street overnight. It followed an up day that trailed a down day. Chances are, other markets would follow suit. But under current circumstances ...

Rambo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
United we stand, divided... the euro's sunk! Rambo. What was Germany thinking, going it alone to battle the battalions of speculators determined to burn the euro to the ground? Germany banned the naked short selling on European government bonds, shares ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
What does it take to wipe out more than US$1,000,000,000,000 on Wall Street? Punching "B" instead of "M" on your keyboard. Panic set on Wall Street overnight as the Dow went into a freefall to record its worst ever intra-day drop of 998.5 points. Was ...