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The day the earth moved

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
Floods, cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, what will Mommy Nature unleash next? By now you've surely read or heard about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on 11 March 2011 and is still wreaking havoc on the world's third biggest economy. The ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... releases here completed the "day of rage" picture. It's trade deficit widened to a bigger-than-expected US$46.3 billion in January - the highest in seven months. Exports increased by 2.7 per cent while imports rose by 5.2 per cent from the previous month. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
The Australian market is receiving strong, negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with foreign markets spooked by the crisis in Libya, and poor data from China, the US and Spain. On the ASX 24 at 0832 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices flat, while precious metals were higher and oil eased. On the ASX 24 at 0837 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was two points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
The Australian dollar has fallen almost half a US cent following disappointing housing finance data and a soft consumer sentiment survey. At 1200 AEDT, the local unit was trading at 100.73 US cents, lower from Tuesday's local close of 101.16 US cents. ...

Dutch pension tackles longevity risk and ageing population

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The Dutch pension system will soon introduce a new pension contract that would tackle the dual challenges of longevity risk and an ageing population. The Netherlands has a mandatory pension system based on generous defined benefits but an ageing population ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and everything is fine except... it's not fine enough. Wall Street was so sure heading into the February US non-farm payrolls report that the data will confirm improving labour market conditions in America. All the ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Investors may love Wall Street more today than yesterday... but not as much as tomorrow. This was the conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... opening of trading in the United States the private payrolls firm ADP reported a 15 per cent increase in job creation from January -- to 217,000 jobs -- much better than the hiring slowdown expected by economists. The US jobs figure failed to pull European ...

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 ...