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Search for equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
National governments, one on top of the other or in unison, have been throwing money and/or guarantees and/or lower interest rates at banks, financial institutions and the money markets to in order to restore confidence in the financial system. While ...

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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks gained in a late rally early this morning, amid ongoing volatility on markets. At 0758 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was up ...

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... with the very month that the S&P bounced back and continued to rise. Coincidence or not, the first seven trading days of October - before the bail-outs and worldwide government intervention - a record US$31 billion flew out of US equity mutual funds ...

AFA nominates 2008 Rising Star

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
Up-and-coming financial planners from AMP, Apogee Financial Planning, Total Financial Solutions and Synchron were nominated in this year's AFA Rising Star Awards. The finalists and their dealer group are: A, Mary Benton: AMP Financial Planning A, Brad ...

Sober and sombre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
True to script, Wall Street calmed down from the euphoric rally that greeted investors at the start of the trading week. Just as the spectacular one-day rallies of the 1930s (see yesterday's report, "Depression no more?") were followed by more sober ...

Depression no more?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
A depression-like stockmarket tumble needs a depression-like bounce back. This is what the equity markets' got overnight as Wall Street staged its biggest rally since October 1931. Equity markets across Europe and the US recorded spectacular one-day ...

HFs continue to outperform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... example, the Greenwich Alternative Investments Market Sentiment Indicator found 27 per cent are 'bullish' on US equities in October - which may be a small figure - is still a 10 per cent jump on number of managers that were bullish the prior month.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher after US stocks slowed their declines on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index fell 1.49 per cent and 1.18 per cent respectively while the NASDAQ managed to gain 0.27 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker following a negative lead from the US as Wall Street tried but failed to find some stability from an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve and other big central banks. At 0807 AEDT, the December ...