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Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Move on people, get going, nothing to see here. Wall Street went home happy last night despite Uncle Ben's much-anticipated semi-annual testimony before the US Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs being a non-event - a maintenance ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
The bulls - already dwindling in numbers by the day - must now be starting to find religion as the only means of delivering them from eternal damnation - in the financial sense, of course. For this time, Virginia, the sky does really look like it's ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
Stop right there. If you believe that last night's reversal of fortune on Wall Street was really, truly because of "improved data on the US housing market" as the Australian Financial Review puts it or "as Home Data Tempers Economic Concern," as per ...

Cold calling scammer gets 10 year ban

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
Australian Securities & Investments Commission has banned City Index Australasia and its director, Blair Jason Travers, from the financial services industry for 10 years after being found guilty of a cold calling scam. Australian Securities & Investments ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... Street's disappointment became evident as soon as the US Federal Reserve's decision hit the screens shortly after midday NY time -- the Dow dropped by 90 points, then oscillated between plus and minus before closing a mere 0.1% lower. The Fed decided ...

Uncle Ben to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
What did you expect? Naturally with the G-20 about to conclude their meeting today and the US Federal Reserve holding policy deliberations, the financial market air would be rife with speculation. Rumours out of Los Cabos, Mexico propelled stock markets ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
Ho-hum. Some may find riding the current stock market see-saw exciting but I'm beginning to get bored. Certainly what we're going through right here, right now is the stuff histories are made of, but there's only so much a man can take - especially ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
Happy Birthday your majesty... and thank you! Thank you for the three-day weekend which allowed us one-extra day of sleep in. Thank you for the extra day of rest that also meant another day of boozing. But most of all, thank you for leading us not into ...

SMSF software helps maximise property tax deductions

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
SMSF administration software developer Class Super has launched accounting software to calculate property depreciation values on an on-going basis. Class Super, owned by Class Financial Systems, has introduced the new property module to allow SMSF administrators ...

Insurance bonds back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
Insurance bonds are back in favour as new entrants and old providers are returning with updated products and expansive investment menus, said Ross Higgins, Austock managing director. Higgins was speaking at the fourth installment of Financial Standard's ...