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The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... straight weeks, Wall Street's been eking out gains and the way it's going, just a wittle more and it'll be standing above the summit it reached back in 2007 (the time we, Australians, thought of the GFC to mean Geelong Football Club). At the close of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... analyst Ric Spooner said the Australian market was continuing to rally after recent announcements at the European Leaders Summit and by the European Central Bank that had reduced the potential of a near term crisis in Europe. "The S&P/ASX 200 index has ...

Kinks in Stronger Super armour

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... lead to perverse outcomes, according to one Russell Investments executive. Speaking at the Russell Australian Investment Summit on Friday, Graham Harman, director of Capital Markets Research at Russell, labelled the better governance outcome of Stronger ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... uncertainties are in the offing. There is Europe. The europhoria sparked by the "breakthrough agreement" at the 28-29 June EU Summit was just that - a spark that quickly died out as soon as the first set of bad news trickled out of the region. The most ...

Cross-border super collaboration on way

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... which is the biggest investor in both [the] Chinese equity and primary equity market." Wang's comments followed a two-day summit attended by key executives from the public pension funds of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Hong Kong and Korea, which ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... news. The EU finally came through and is about to implement its first set of "breakthroughs" agreed upon at last month's summit. Eurozone finance ministers shook hands on the a,-100 billion aid promised to Spain, with an initial downpayment of a,-30 ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... doing - waiting for the result of the French and Greek elections, waiting for Greece's election mark 2, waiting on the G-20 summit, waiting on the Fed's monetary policy decision, waiting on the EU Summit - and reacting accordingly. Don't look now - hey ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... Peacock said local investors were consolidating the gains of the last few days as details of the weekend European Union (EU) summit were worked out and they waited for the Reserve Bank of Australia's official interest rate decision on Tuesday. "I think ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... a clear view of the next three weeks is a hard ask. What I found was that just a weekend passed after the birth of Euro Summit "breakthrough" and so-called experts have gone back to their drawing boards, creating a list of reasons of why the "breakthrough" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... In Australia, the market on Monday closed higher, following gains on US and European markets in the wake of last week's summit of European Union leaders. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 38.4 points, or 0.94 per cent, to 4,133.0 points, while the ...