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ASFA elects new chair, board members

ASFA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... National Conference Committee. Next year's conference will be held in Adelaide from 10-12 November 2010, under the theme "Spring into Action".

Dead cat bouncers dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... housing, to manufacturing - announcing that, "Elvis has left the building!" But as I've often warned, "one swallow does not a spring make." It was true on the way down, it's also true as we head upwards. Elvis may have still left his guitar behind. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... data, propelled the Dow Jones industrial average 725 points in July to its best month in nearly seven years, restarting a spring rally that had stalled in June. The Dow rose 114.95, or 1.25 per cent, to 9286.56. The S&P 500 index rose 15.15, or 1.53 ...

Gen-Y in a bottle

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
Banks and super funds run the risk of losing their Gen-Y members, who will represent half of their membership base in 10 years' time, if they don't drastically change their communication channels today. Rocky Scopelliti, a senior executive at Telstra ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... the US jobs market which could make the turnaround in housing a slow process. But even this is improving. It must be the spring and coming of summer in the Northern Hemisphere but there is no denying that US consumers are merrier. The US Conference Board's ...

She'll be right mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... week! Most equity markets - from New York to Rio and Old London town - greeted the early buds of the Northern Hemisphere Spring with spring on their steps. Wall Street - as many others - marked their fourth straight week of gains. The S&P 500 and the ...

GFC Problem solved

... there reportedly increased by 0.9 per cent in March - the first increase since October 2007. 'One swallow does not make a spring.' Certainly, we would need several more months to confirm whether these good news are the start of a positive trend. Surely ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... peaked (January 2006) long before the start of the financial meltdown in the middle of 2007. One swallow does not make a spring While welcomed, we need several more months to see whether the improvement in these indicators continue before we can call ...

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... system, what is wrong with the system, and what will go wrong with the system. Last night they celebrated the coming of spring (in the Northern Hemisphere) and looked forward to a plentiful harvest. Words and music. US Federal Chairman Ben Bernanke's ...