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Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... jump to a conclusion that Australia is looking down the barrel of recession is downright stupid. At this point, the labour market is just settling to its natural equilibrium level. Recall that just a year or so ago, Australia was even importing overseas ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... brought home the point that Main Street is roasting. After initially fluctuating between both sides of zero, the US equity market closed its first trading day after the weekend G20 Summit down by more than 2 per cent. While the magnitude of last night's ...

Grove and Counterpoint seal $11bn merger

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... before they were north of 90 cents," he said. But Ibbetson said that while they are fishing for bargains in the credit market, they don't intend to get into the equities market in a big way just yet. "We think there's still a lot of leverage in the [equities] ...

GSJBW team heads up boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... "Our strong view is that opportunities for excess investment returns are greatest within the small caps segment of the market, as companies within this space are often under researched and inefficiently priced. "This has never been more apparent than ...

FTSE adds more ESG indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... of environmental, social and governance (ESG) indices. The global index provider will collaborate with KLD to design and market the co-branded ESG indices. Peter Kinder, KLD president, described the partnership as a milestone for socially responsible ...

Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... markets from 10 major price makers in over 700 Australian and New Zealand debt securities. The group's dealer-to-dealer market opened only last year and processes government and semigovernment securities and AUD corporate, supra, agency and sovereign ...

Three steadies and a cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (1 - 5 Sep 2008) Four of the world's major central banks will hold monetary policy meetings this week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), The Bank of Canada (BoC), the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) ...

Lower, higher, steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... favour of lower interest rates in the coming months, or perhaps, as early as the next. Today, the Australian financial market will get more clues on the RBA's thinking and an update on car sales. The RBA Monthly Bulletin is expected to reiterate previous ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open relatively flat today, but may rise slightly after oil continued to slide. At 0750 AEST, the September share price index futures contract on the Sydney Futures exchange was 15 points higher at 4,986. Today's ...

Fed does an RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
The RBA did not disappoint market expectations and announced no change in the official interest rate of 7.25 percent while markets interpreted the RBA's accompanying statement as an indication that an interest rate reduction is in the offing. In its ...