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QE2 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
QE2: Coming soon to a theatre near you! Faster than fiscal spending, more powerful than QE1, able to lift employment and prevent deflation in a single bound! Look up in the sky...it's QE2! Wall Street is abuzz with speculation that the Fed would very ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
The Australian market is receiving generally positive leads from offshore trading overnight. European market indices were slightly lower, but Wall St bounced back in late trading following indications from the US Federal Reserve that it was preparing ...

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... weekend reading probably know what I'm going to write about. Yes, it's the US private non-farm payrolls report for September - the one that shows that jobs in America are still hard to come by. Overall non-farm payrolls dropped by 95,000 in the month ...

AAT upholds ASIC adviser ban

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has upheld ASIC's decision to ban Joshua David Fuoco from providing financial services for five years, after he engaged in deceptive conduct, including providing defective documents to clients. ASIC banned Fuoco from ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! We're all hearing this cheer growing louder by the day whether in reference to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi or the currency markets internationally. In Delhi, Australians currently lead their Commonwealth competitors ...

Govt to offer more choices on FHSAs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
First Home Saver Accounts (FHSAs) could become more appealing to first home owners following proposed changes released this week. The draft legislation announced by the deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan offers more concessions that will ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... currency markets gathered pace after the ADP/Macroeconomic Advisors reported that private payrolls fell by 39,000 in September - lower than expectations for a 20,000 gain and the first drop since January. Big Ben already sounded the warning bell yesterday ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
It's a wrap! It's official! September 2010 is the man! Wall Street may have been down for the day but it produced the best September gain even before many of us were born. The S&P 500 index soared by 8.8 per cent in the month, the Dow jumped by 7.7 ...

Scammer targets AMP and AXA investors

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... unclearly". Hassle Free Shares had made around 90,000 unsolicited offers to AMP and AXA shareholders between 1 July and 3 September - offering to buy shares below current market prices. One example includes an offer by Hassle Free Shares of $1,589.68 ...

APESB extends consultation

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
The Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board (APESB) has extended its consultation period on a proposal to ban members who offer financial planning services from charging asset-based fees from July next year. The Accounting Professional & Ethical ...