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Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... the international community frowned when Malaysia's Mahathir Mohammad imposed capital and currency controls to stem the attack on the ringgit, now they prescribe the very thing abhorred during the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98. Talks of capital control ...

Super future hangs on High Court decision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
Super funds will be keenly watching the outcome of a precedent making High Court case that has the potential to destroy a major plank of superannuation legislation, an industry body said today. Market research company Roy Morgan Research has challenged ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
The Australian dollar is over half a US cent higher on news that the Group of Seven major industrialised countries have agreed to support Japan's economy. The US dollar also surged against the yen on news that the G7 had agreed on joint intervention ...

Japan shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
The still-unfolding disaster in Japan is sapping the optimism off financial markets. Stock markets rallied yesterday but it looks like they'll be down again today. Volatility is the order of today and would remain so for as long as strong aftershocks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... 2,751.72. Crude oil prices fell in New York and rose in London as forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi continued to attack rebels seeking his ouster. A series of massive explosions erupted into fireballs near an oil facility outside the rebel-held ...

Super industry warned of hack attacks

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... the wealth-management industry is a sitting duck for cyber crime and must take steps to safeguard itself against future attack. Detective-Inspector Bruce van der Graaf of the NSW Police Fraud Squad shocked a ballroom packed with finance industry professionals ...

SG war far from over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... levels seems to be stalling with the AIST again maneuvered into coming out to defend the rise from another business lobby attack. "Employers had nothing to fear from compulsory super contributions moving to 12 per cent, while workers and the nation had ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Months of anxiety over rising inflation, speculation over near-term hikes in interest rates (in the developed economies) and/or actual hikes in interest rates (in emerging markets), lingering doubts over the US recovery, policy mistake and then a hard ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... governments' differing views on how to resolve the fiscal and debt crises have so far gotten them nowhere - just a rolling attack on one country and then the other. European leaders will meet tomorrow night in Brussels to "review the debt-crisis options ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... far from over. And as in 2010, it has the potential to send markets in a tailspin every time the bond market barbarians attack the gates of Europa. The Europeans kicked the Greek debt crisis can of 2009 down the road into the Irish debt crisis of 2010. ...