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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
Australian shares have opened flat as traders wait to see if the market surpasses a 19-month high reached after the New Year. At 1014 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 9.6 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 4,748.0 and the broader All ...

Season's Greetings from Financial Standard

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... take this opportunity to wish you and your family the Compliments of the Season, happy holidays and best wishes for the New Year! See you in 2013.

Make super review your New Year's resolution

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... says MLC. The wealth management division of NAB has identified a number of strategies people can put in place during the New Year to take better control of their superannuation savings. It recommends all superannuation members consider whether they can ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... below that mark shortly after. Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said he expected the benchmark index to close at a new year-to-date high when trading ended at 1615 AEDT. "We will be strong," Mr Smith said. "I think there are absolutely good reasons ...

A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012

Wen again gets what Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... Gung hei fat choy! You read it right Virginia. It's the greeting we hear (if I spelled it correctly) when the Chinese New Year comes around. For like Halloween and Xmas, it also appears to have come early. Sing Hallelujah! Sing it. Sing Hallelujah! (Dr. ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's (FSIU) view that with almost everyone and his dog anticipating gloom heading into the New Year, there is a greater likelihood for upside surprises to surprise on the upside. Let us count the ways: No surprises that ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... bailed out. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Don't they just remind you why we've been happy little vegemites this side of the New Year? So happy that the S&P 500 jumped 1.1% overnight. But it wasn't only Wall Street that's happy that growth is back, the Australian ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... long shot. It's just that the advent of better than expected eco stats and surveys heading into, and this side of the New Year, had drowned out concerns over dark clouds still looming above Europe. The relative silence of European authorities, and all ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... be focusing on the release of China's manufacturing data this week as the country returns to trading after the lunar New Year holiday, said brokers. Gold miners got a boost after a bout of risk aversion offshore on Friday boosted the yellow metal. Newcrest ...