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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... tensions between North and South Korea sent investors fleeing from the stock market into safe-haven investments such as US government bonds. At one point, all 30 of the Dow's stocks were down, with shares in consumer and financial firms hit hardest. ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
With the uproar surrounding the government's proposed 'mining super profits' tax, a less controversial solution may be putting mining royalties directly into an Australian sovereign wealth fund. Speaking on the ABC TV discussion program Q&A this week ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... gold prices, and a negative US lead after Wall Street's most powerful firm, Goldman Sachs & Co, was accused by the US government of misleading investors. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 65.9 points, or 1.32 per cent, at 4,918.8 points at 1203 ...

Co-contribs bungle is costing taxpayers: Hartsuyker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
The Australian Tax Office's superannuation co-contribution suspension could cost taxpayers at least $1 million, according to shadow minister, Luke Hartsuyker. Hartsuyker, shadow minister for consumer affairs, financial services, superannuation and corporate ...

Strong one, says yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... reflective of the Fed's completion of its purchase of $US1.25 trillion mortgage-backed securities. The worry is that the US government may need to offer higher yields to continue attracting investors to fund this deficit. But is it really this fear of ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... months since he was at the helm of the most powerful central bank in the world. Greenie observed that yields on US government bonds have been rising in recent days which he attributes to investors' trepidation over "this huge overhang of federal debt ...

Risk-free no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... it all! It's all over the headlines. A handful of US corporates are deemed better able to pay their debt than the US government! Bloomberg reports that bonds offered by Berkshire Hathaway, Proctor and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson and Lowe's yield less ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... conservative holding pattern included uncertainty over Europe's aid package for Greece and the withdrawal of the US government's stimulus package, scheduled for March 31, he said. "You've got the China Syndrome so to speak. The main concern is what will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... Ordinaries index rose 0.5 point to 4,829.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks finished higher on Wednesday, in response to the US government's report of a drop in company inventories during January, despite fading late in the session. The Commerce Department ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... government funding. Speaking of which, AIG takes the cake in scaremongering. AIG's Powerpoint presentation to the US government was scarier than Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', or Michael Jackson himself. Bloomberg reported that, in its attempt to secure ...