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Governor Glenn lets his jaw drop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... the A$ lower vis-A -vis the US dollar - down 0.8% on the day he spoke and another 0.03% the day after, it's currently trading at US$0.9357 from US$0.9437 on 2 July. However, how much of this is due to Dow 17K and the good news on the US labour market ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
It was short, but oh so sweeet! Short was last night's trading activity in the New York Stock Exchange - 3.5 hours instead of 6.5 hours -- and we all know what the sweeet was - the Dow gatecrashed through 17K to a new record, the S&P 500 rose to new ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... International and Hong Kong-listed investment firm First Pacific goes ahead after the food group's shares were placed in a trading halt on Monday. On Monday, the Australian market fell almost one per cent after last minute share sales as investors sought ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street in a quiet day of trading in its last session with strong earnings from Nike helping to offset a profit warning from DuPont. At 0645 AEST on Monday, the September share price ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
A trading day short of six months into 2014 and yields on 10-year US government benchmark bonds have dropped to 2.54% -- exactly 50 basis points below the 3.04% they were fetching at the birth of 2014. What's interesting Virginia, is that this is happening ...

Financial services stars named in rich list

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... professional investor on the list in 87th place. Known as "the Wizard of Oz", Coffey has accumulated his $532 million fortune trading for BT Investment Management, George Soros-backed Blue Border, Bank Austria, GLG Partners and Louis Beacon. Aussie Home ...

MDA provider makes debut on ASX

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
Managed Accounts Holdings Limited has started trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) today after raising about $3 million in its Initial Public Offering. The owner of managed discretionary account specialist managedaccounts.com.au will ...

Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... that happens at the end of every quarter (fiscal year for some. mid-year for others) - window dressing? It's just three trading days away you know. I wonder what the spin would be tomorrow - or the day after or the next - when Wall Street climbs at the ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
I had pancakes for breakfast. So was everyone else tuned in to overnight trading activity on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index closed flat -- ok, ok... an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie minus 0.01% if one must be pedantic about it -- after declining by as much ...

S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... number of times the gloom and doomers got it wrong... six months into 2014! Randy Frederick - "managing director of active trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas" - interview with Reuters underscores the market's sentiment each and ...