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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is set for a weak opening after European markets and Wall Street suffered sharp falls in their last sessions on continuing concerns about European economies. At 0724 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price ...

Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
Is it over or isn't it? Has the fat lady already sung the swan song of the US recession? Financial markets are all a-buzz with this question after the New York Times carried a story about the 8 April meeting by the National Bureau of Economic Research ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Wall Street securities have provided a positive lead to the Australian stock market on Friday, although key commodities all were lower in overnight trade. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0740 AEST, the June share price index contract was 27 points ...

NSW man sentenced for early super release

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
Another one bites the dust - SMSF trustee Atan Ona Kassongo joins the growing list of offenders caught unlawfully allowing early access to his super fund. Kassongo, of Castle Hill, New South Wales, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment, to be ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
The Australian stock market received a mostly positive set of leads from offshore trading, with Wall Street and base metals prices trading higher. But gold and oil prices were weaker. At 0825 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price ...

Trader's market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
What's the trouble with Wall Street? It can't seem to make its mind these past three days - down, up, down. US equity indices closed lower last night after rising the day before and falling before the day before. Just writing that sentence has gotten ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
Chinese New Year. Valentine's Day. They fell on the same day this year. The Chinese all around the world and lovers of all nationalities were torn about which day to celebrate. Easy for the Chinese -- the celebration of the "Year of the Tiger" takes ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
If you believe the mantra that any economic recovery would not be sustainable without employment growth, then there is now no doubt that Australia has one sustainable economic expansion going. The latest Labour Force, Australia released by the Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
Australian stocks are likely to slump on Friday after equity markets in Europe and the US fell on concerns that the global economic recovery won't be as smooth as investors had been hoping. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Going nowhere fast. This is what the Dow did over the past two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped 122 points - the biggest since mid-December - after rallying by 116 points the day before. The Dow closed at a 15-month high on speculation that ...