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Away for Easter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... other. The overriding reason is perhaps many investors, traders and speculators have already hanged their hats for their Easter break to do battle again after Christ's resurrection. To explain this, just look at the volume of trade in the S&P last night. ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
Last night the US Federal Reserve made Wall Street an offer it could not refuse - 1.25 trillion freshly minted greenbacks. After heading south for most of the trading session, the S&P 500 changed direction and headed for a more than 2 per cent gain ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Been there, done that. More money poured and promised to be poured into the economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these ...

Property re-pricing to come in waves

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Super funds with high stakes in global property should brace for more pain in the asset class this year although the re-pricing is predicted to come in stages and not necessarily in the order you would expect them to, according to a new survey. Global ...

Climate change takes priority: Zurich

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
Climate change should be at the top of insurers' concerns as it directly impacts product premiums and the bottom lines of insurers worldwide, according to Zurich. "Climate change should not be on page five - it needs to be on page one," said David Smith ...

Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... race to zero interest rates. The way major central banks are going, benchmark target rates could hit the big fat 0 before Easter 2009. Following the Reserve Bank of Australia's 100 basis point interest rate reduction early this week, central banks in ...

Deutsche extends MENA services

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
Deutsche Bank continues to broaden its Middle East and North African (MENA) equities capability, adding trading, sales trading and equity capital markets services to its platform and hiring two senior executives. Former UBS executives, Ahmed Beydoun ...

Sentiment seesaw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
Up and down we go, where it stops we do not know. Wall Street's performance overnight highlights how tenuous financial market sentiment remains. The sentiment seesaw became obvious as the Dow Jones industrial index went from a 4.4 per cent loss to a ...

UBank brand not quite ready for NAB

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
National Australia Bank chose the height of the second stage of the great credit crunch as the right time to introduce its alternative retail bank brand UBank to the Australian market. The first product for NAB's UBank is an aggressively priced three-month ...

SWFs back alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
The $3.8 trillion sovereign wealth funds sector is expected to pour more money into alternatives to diversify their portfolios, new research shows. "We can expect that sovereign wealth funds [will] progressively diversify into a broader range of investment ...