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Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Another week, another dollar will be gained or lost. Or perhaps, I should say, another week, another dollar gained, then lost, then... Yes Virginia, such is the financial markets' current collective myopia that while there had been a lot of shakin' ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... currency markets since the advent of the GFC, made a thinly veiled reference to intervening again. "That leaves the RBA as the odd man out. They have expressed no concerns over the rising Australian dollar and even see it as a necessary adjustment to ...

Rewind and replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
Nothing new. It's the same old song. If only this space allows for instant replay, it would be easier to ask you to rewind, then simply playback my past ruminations. Wall Street inched up overnight, but not so convincingly. So why is this? Why? Why? ...

Core and satellite approach not bulletproof: study

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
Combining a passive core with aggressive satellite managers is at long odds to succeed, according to the findings of a new study. The research, conducted by Ankura Capital, has raised serious questions over the suitability of the multi-manager approach ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... Mid-cap resources stocks were facing a sell-off and reversing Friday's strong gains, Mr Padley said. "There was something odd on Friday," he said. "All the mid-cap resources went up enormously - it was almost like some fund just dumped money into the ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
Wall Street's weekend may have done it some good. It left pondering the tug o' war between good company profit results and negative economic data. The Street didn't like what it saw. Investors sold... heavily. Wall Street returned last night, still ...

Let the reporting season begin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
So this is what the markets are like when news go away! Wall Street was a little bit up, so was Europe. Asian equities hopped a tad and Australian shares skipped a beat higher yesterday. Flat was the day in the life of equities markets across the globe ...

Paul does it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The elevation of Julia Gillard to become Australia's first female Prime Minister, which increases the odds the government will be re-elected and possibly win back a few senate seats, makes it more likely that the government's financial services reform ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
Ok, ok...there's no defending the indefensible, so I wouldn't even try. Now you know what happens when hype meets reality. The S&P 500 index plummeted by 3.44 per cent when "great expectations" on the US jobs front turned out to be a "great disappointment". ...