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Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... this long to issue a downgrade - when a bucketful of money has already been lost. Uh... oh, I'll be in trouble with my friends at Standard & Poor's again. Surely, nobody expected an upgrade -- not with Greece's budget deficit at 13.6 per cent of a shrinking ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
It was about this time last year that a few of my closest friends were given the boot by their employers and told their services were no longer needed. It is not so much that they lost their jobs that worried them but the negative prospects that awaited ...

Planners sidelined for self-investing strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... their own hands - sidelining advisers and brokers in favour of independent research and listening to their families and friends. Around 70 per cent of traders classed themselves in the "self-directed" category a year ago - however 79 per cent expect ...

Women in Super aids breast cancer research

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... registration can be done online. Participants can raise extra funds by setting up a fundraising page and getting family, friends and colleagues to sponsor the walk or run.

Men behaving womanly

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... partners or the influence of their tribe," he added, explaining that men are increasingly heeding the advice of their friends, colleagues and extended family.

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... accustomed to over the past few weeks. By the close of trading the S&P 500 printed a 1.4 per cent loss. The reason my dear friends (you are, if you're still reading my pieces all this time) is spelt out in Bloomberg's headline, "Stocks, Commodities Fall ...

Mickey money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... cheering up depression. But is Wall Street now playing with Mickey Mouse Money? Walt Disney, with a little help from its friends - JC Penney and Abercrombie & Fitch Co -brightened Wall Street's sombre mood last Friday by announcing better-than-expected ...

Budget, what budget?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... also a generation that has created the 'mates' bank, with 87 per cent of Gen Yers borrowing and lending money fromt heir friends to the total of more than $2.6 billion a year. Nearly two-thirds of them shout their friends to drinks and 30 per cent lend ...

Billionaire faces insider trading noose

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... McKinsey & Company. SEC filed its complaint in federal court in Manhattan, and said Rajaratnam tapped into his "network of friends and close business associates" to gain insider tips and secret information about corporate earnings and takeover activity. ...

Aviva launches insurance 'mylink'

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... said. This is particularly relevant in rural areas or where the financial planner's client base also include family and friends. "It means a client can answer such questions in the privacy of their own home, check their medical and other personal records ...