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More taper talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013

The game markets play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
"Your love keeps lifting me higher Than I've ever been lifted before... I'm gonna be at your side, forevermore." - Jackie Wilson Forget Jackie Wilson, Bipbop Benny's (Ben Bernanke) rendition of this tune last week sounded much, much better to financial ...

Jobs a-plenty but not if Gillard could help it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
Wow! That's the only expression one could make when one saw the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on the state of the country's labour market. Wow indeed for the Australian economy added more than seven times the 10,000 workers economists ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
I'm an Aussie and I'll cry if I want to. I'll cry if I want to, I'll cry if I want to. My good pal, Alex 'yes we can' Dunnin - Rainmaker's Director of Editorial & Research - emailed me yesterday Malcolm Maiden's piece in the Sydney Morning Herald titled ...

Advisers urged to discuss structured giving

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... portion of net wealth and income that is given, Robertson says. "If someone gives away a million dollars, everyone goes, 'Wow - that's a lot,'" Robertson said. "But in the scheme of things if you have $1 billion, that's not even 1% of your wealth whereas ...

NAB winds up private equity arm

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... holdings. It is understood ICS was forced to make a $20 million write-down on its investment in Queensland electronic retail chain WOW Sight and Sound, which went into receivership earlier this year. ICS was headed by former ANZ private equity head Graham ...

ASX launches Equity OTC Clear service

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... most liquid equity options, which are AMP, ANZ, AWC, BHP, BSL, CBA, FMG, MQG, NAB, NCM, OZL, QBE, RIO, STO, TLS, WBC, WES, WOW and WPL, and also over the index XJO option contract.

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Ben Bernanke! It was a wow day on Wall Street overnight as our friend Ben reinforced this Ben's view that it would be a win-win for equity markets, no matter how the Fed see its ...

Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
"Betcha by golly wow You're the one that I've been waiting for..." -Stylistics Hear ye, hear ye, the Europeans have reached an accord - and financial markets liked the sound of that. Major European equity indices soared between 2.9% (FTSE-100) and 6.3 ...

Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... share prices of European stocks that happened overnight. The FTSE-100 ended 4.02% on the up and up by the close of trading. Wow! But if you think that's good. The Continent's performance was great! Germany's Dax index rallied by 5.3%, France's CAC-40 ...