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December 25bps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... of Australia (RBA) will or will not hand Australians another 25 basis point increase in the official cash rate before Christmas. The odds fell to a 50 per cent chance it will - I guess this is the same as saying it won't - after the 0.2 per cent fall ...

Trick or treat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Trick or treat? Trick or treat? Will Halloween steal Christmas away from Wall Street? It appears so given the stumble on Wall Street and most major equity markets around the world last week - sending their early October gains down the gurgler. Wall ...

Gonzalez move a win-win: analyst

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... Perpetual, said an analyst. Emilio Gonzalez, former group executive, global equities at Perpetual, joins BT after the Christmas break officially taking the top spot on 21 January. Gonzalez worked at Perpetual for 19 years across a number of positions ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... wouldn't surprise me if it became a bit more reflective as it gets closer over the next few months... could get there at Christmas." Mr Wright said the energy sector was up but investors weren't getting too excited. "Energy stocks have pretty underwhelming ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... 'whisper' expectations of US$6.00. Say that again? Yes, it's like telling everybody that you want a Toyota Corolla for Christmas, receiving a top of the line BMW...but secretly you wanted a Lamborghini. I wonder how Sigmund Freud will deal with this? ...

Christmas comes early for job seekers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
... can take some comfort in the fact that 14 per cent of Australian firms plan to take on more staff in the lead up to Christmas. Planners and fund managers who faced the axe this time last year due to the GFC can take heart that employers are once again ...

Aussie dollar rises to restore equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... Australian dollar threatened to trade at parity with its US counterpart. Most of us were planning overseas holidays come Christmas 2008 and/or wringing our hands over what imported item our more valuable currency could purchase. The A$ went as high as ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to everyone and all! Except for the grinch bears that is. Yes, Virginia. Christmas came in July. Hope and cheer abounded in equity markets around the globe and in other risk assets. How could they not? Slow - painfully ...

Capstone FP eyes more practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... New South Wales practices and eight Queensland offices. "We've really pushed along that eastern seaboard nicely, by Christmas we'll open another five or six offices," he said. While the group is ramping up its growth strategy, O'Riley said the group ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... immense fiscal pressures, left superannuation largely unscathed. For an industry fearing the worst, today must be like Christmas. And there we were thinking this budget was going to be tough.