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Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... overnight (Wall Street's on holiday), it's safe to assume that everyone and his cat are punting on an "aye" vote. The EU authorities are just waiting for the midnight hour like they always do... to save themselves. Cause this really is the crux of the ...

All Greeced out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... the New Year, had drowned out concerns over dark clouds still looming above Europe. The relative silence of European authorities, and all those involved in Europe-gazing, also provided some sort of tranquillity in trading activity - we have yet to see ...

Fears Volcker Rule will hit sovereign bond trading

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... trading activity across the border into the Canadian city of Toronto. Canada's leading banks have also written to US authorities warning the Volcker Rule restrictions potentially impede Canada's NAFTA international treaty obligations, reported the Globe ...

Agile, flexible portfolios big winners for instos

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... debt by de-leveraging banks," White said. The increase in coordinated policy responses from political and financial authorities may ease the sense of crisis in the short-term, though there is potential for long-term inflation expectations to subsequently ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... - fiscal and monetary - that had been implemented as a result. But that's precisely my point. Dire warnings force authorities into a counter strike. Perhaps what gives is that forecasting's really a mug's game. Forecasters have a tendency to take current ...

ASIC warns against security breaches

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... unauthorised access and trading during a routine surveillance of the Australian financial markets. The regulator and other authorities are in the process of identifying the source of the intrusions. ASIC said it will follow a line of enquiry that has ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... the financial and economic environment could deteriorate further as 2012 ages. But you, I and government and finance authorities - and Irene -- are already aware of these. And they're taking action. Just last night for instance, the IMF was reported ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... Chinese growth in the final quarter of 2011 was not as big as had been feared and would still see Chinese monetary authorities loosen policy. Though the drop to 8.9 per cent represented the lowest rate in two and a half years, the markets had been expecting ...

UBS: Political turmoil adding to market woes

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... the European crisis to escalate, strong political leadership is seen as increasingly desirable not just in terms of authorities taking rapid action on the crisis but also in areas impacting the global economy, such as world trade, according to UBS. Investor ...