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SFG restructures board for best practice

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
... directorships including Blackmores Limited, PMP Limited, DealsDirect.com.au, Chartis Australia Insurance Limited, Sydney Dance Company and Racing NSW. As part of the Company's stated intention to seek an ASX best practice governance structure and structure ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... meetings)? As far as the financial markets are concerned, the key has been wound and we're just now waiting for the RBA to do the dance. That is, the Reserve Bank of Australia will again lower the official cash rate by another 25 basis points to an even ...

Asian counterweight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... teleconference for? To try out their new iPads, perhaps? And 'rumbas' Kirios Mossialos? Seems like the 'danza de la muerte' (dance of death) to me. All this should have been done and dusted last 21 July when Eurozone leaders agreed to a second bailout ...

On the verge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... markets have shaken off the high anxiety of the past week, teeth gnashing returns. Blood's again been spilled on the trading dance floors of commodity markets and most major equity markets around the world. The S&P 500 dropped by 4.5% last night, the ...

Media Super wants corporate marriage

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... moves before it integrates its new administrative platform. "We're sitting in the corner of the hall, anxious to get on the dance floor," he said. While a merger between an industry fund and a corporate fund may seem unusual, it would expand the number ...

Dead cat bouncers dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... and themselves - since 2009 began. And since the March 2009 lows? Oh boy! It won't just be a pink slip but blood on the dance floor. Try explaining how you missed out on a 49.4 per cent rally! Sure only a freak could pick the bottom of the market, but ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
Roll out the money-making machine. The US economic and financial situation continues to burn while the politicians fiddle. In spite of the goodwill that Barack Obama took with him to the Oval office and the fact that he has already etched a 'game plan' ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
"This is a beautiful set of numbers." (Paul Keating). What is? The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report for November of course. But many headlines did not see it that way. Bloomberg headline: Australia Lost 15,600 Jobs, Adding ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... continues to be dictated by the inflow of economic indicators during this data-filled week. Australian equities, in turn, dance to its tune. The local bourse maintained its gains at the close of yesterday's trading following Wall Street's rally overnight. ...

Rate reprieve scratch during Cup Carnival?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
Worse-than-expected CPI figures could crash the Melbourne Cup Carnival, while the Aussie dollar dances to the beat of the rate hike speculation. The trimmed mean consumer price index (CPI) figure rose to 0.9 per cent in the September quarter and consensus ...