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Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... disappointed, at 52.2 in June, it remains at the expansion mark. But the clincher of course lies in the labour market reports - weekly jobless claims, ADP private payrolls and non-farm payrolls. All pointed to improvement. US non-farm employment grew ...

Ready for another take off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... before. My back of the envelope calculation show that the S&P 500 would have to drop by around 1.3% tonight to take its weekly gain to zero. This is certainly within the realms of the probable and the possible. It dropped 1.4% on the day Big Ben talked ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... financial markets falls, the All Ordinaries index' recorded one of the biggest falls among the majors. Heck, it's 3.8% weekly drop even surpassed the Nikkei's 3.5% slide. It's down alongside the big 4% and 3.7% falls in the equity markets of big budget ...

LGBT wealth management market worth $3trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... specific skills in understanding the financial and legal needs of same sex couples. A report in FTfm, the Financial Times ' weekly funds management supplement, pointed to figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics which show that typical two-parent ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... month. So did the Empire State index. It went negative in May - the first red ink since January. Be afraid if these latest weekly/monthly data instalments become a trend. Be really, really afraid if these disappointing stats are indeed the start of a ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... safe-haven assets amid concerns about the US economic recovery. US economic figures, released overnight, show a sharp jump in weekly jobless claims while the number of housing construction starts fell 16.5 per cent in April. The US Labor Department reported ...

Treasury releases draft EM for super changes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... to $35,000 for some individuals. The cap increase has two elements: the current $25,000 cap will be indexed to Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings (AWOTE), and there will be a temporary higher cap that will operate until the standard cap catches up ...

May Day happy day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... sets out of the US yesterday, enough worrying and weeping. Today it's time to eat, drink and be merry for the 'volatile' weekly jobless claims fell by 18K last week - 21K less than market expectations - to 324K (the lowest since January 2008). Bring ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... the S&P 500 index down 0.7% following the previous day's 1.4% loss. Looks like the index is on track to record another weekly fall this week - the third over the past 16 weeks of 2013 -- unless it rallies by 3.1% tonight, a tall order. As we've seen ...

LUCRF ramps up advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... membership direct access to the fund's financial advisers. A team of 20 LUCRF advisers will travel around the country to hold weekly seminars basis, LUCRF Advice Service general manager Rod White said. "We think that a face to face meeting is the most ...