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Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Drugs, prostitution, arms dealing, people trafficking and contraband are usually the scourge of politicians. But new European Union (EU) rules mean these illicit industries could provide European politicians with the wiggle room they need to increase ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
If three weeks (almost) ago European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi still gave himself a bit of wiggle room not to act (or defer action) - "after having seen the Staff projections that will come out in early June" - he did none of that when ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
Minute to win it!... or rather the minutes of the Fed's 18-19 March FOMC meeting win it for Wall Street. The S&P 500 and the Dow jumped by 1.1% and yesterday's hated Nasdaq is now loved again, up 1.7%. But this was - more or less - how we saw it when ...

ANZ praises ASIC "integrity" amid consumer complaints

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
ANZ has praised the integrity of the Australian Securities and Investments Committee (ASIC) in its submission to the Senate inquiry into the regulator's performance, despite coming under fire from consumers. ANZ is the first large financial institution ...

New adviser service speeds up dealer group creation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
The growing adviser demand to operate under their own licence has prompted the partnership of two companies to assist advisers create their own dealer group. My Dealer Services and Libertas Solutions will help advisers to obtain an Australian financial ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
It's been a month -- or thereabouts -- since the European Central Bank -- followed by the US Federal Reserve followed by the Bank of Japan -- gave financial markets what they wished, prayed and hoped for and fired the first salvo of quantitative easing. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
Australian shares were weaker at noon, extending losses from early trade as disappointing US jobs data continued to take its toll on stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 88.6 points, or 2.1 per cent, at 4,154.3 points, while the broader All ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
What a drama 'ey? You know what I'm talking about. The drama that is the 'off-again-on-again' deal on the US debt ceiling and the 'it'll be bailed, no it won't' Greek tragedy. Yes, those ones. The ones that sent risk assets up, then down, then up again ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly lower today, after Wall Street eased overnight on lingering concerns over debt on both sides of the Atlantic. At 0701 AEST, the local September share price index futures contract was down seven ...

New MD as Wilson HTM restructures

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... with the group in the meantime to assist with the transition. "This restructure is in response to the growing diversity of WIG, from a stockbroker to an investment group with substantial new initiatives in funds management, wealth management and products," ...