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The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... Not with the trashing the equity markets, the bond markets and the commodity markets -- from New York to Rio and old London town - are getting right here, right now. My oh my, after all that arduous work - mainly at the printing press -- it appears that ...

LinkedIn the fastest-growing tech company... again

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... trounced its closest competitors Facebook and Apple, who managed only 36% and 16% respectively. But there may be a new player in town. 3D printing company 3D Systems recorded the second-highest 12 month sales growth at 45%. It also scored the second-highest ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
"Bye, bye miss American pie..." and pastries from Japan and China. Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town dropped like flies over the past 24 hours. It would have been easy to put this down to the usual garden variety correction were ...

Women in Super raises $14.8m for cancer research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
Advocacy group Women in Super raised $14.8 million to breast cancer research through its annual event "Women in Super Mother's Day Classic", the organisation announced yesterday. This year the event will be held on May 12 in all capital cities and regional ...

Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... these, Wall Street - followed by other world equity markets - will keep on tracking. It's, after all, still the best game in town. The Fed and other central banks' accommodative monetary policies will continue to push investors away from cash - where ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... (down 1.2%) and Thursday (down 0.6%) last week that, in turn, sent other stock markets from New York to Rio and old London town a-tumblin' down. All because markets thought that the Fed was thinking of unwinding its policy accommodation soon. And then... ...

Keep chasing architects of Trio collapse: Agencies

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
A joint parliamentary committee yesterday urged enforcement agencies to keep chasing the perpetrator of the Trio Capital Fraud. Some $176 million was lost or went missing following the collapse of Trio in late 2009 - the largest superannuation fraud ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... 3.2%. This year, it looks like it's the others who have become greedy. Most stock markets from New York to Rio and old London town showed positive performances at the end of the first month of the New Year. Time to be fearful? These, despite yesterday's ...

APRA's SMSF loan warning berated

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)'s warning about the complexities of self-managed super fund (SMSF) loans has been questioned by a number of industry professionals. APRA executive general manager for policy Chris Littrell warned ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... traversed the near-term bump that's again beginning to worry the pants off investors from New York to Rio and old London town. Yes, we've got a problem coming Houston. It's the US debt ceiling. As President Obama warned last night, "markets could go ...