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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon as the influence wore off from overnight gains on Wall Street, and the market digested domestic growth figures which suggested the Australian economy is heading towards contraction. At 1203 AEDT, the benchmark ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Roll out the printing presses. Cutting the Federal funds target rate below 1 per cent is certainly feasible. This was the statement delivered by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in his speech before the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce in ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
It's official. The US is - or has been - in recession since December 2007. Now what? The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that America's economy entered recession one year ago, despite not ...

QSuper searches for CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
The $21 billion QSuper has hired QIC deputy chief executive, Brad Holzberger as interim chief investment officer while the fund searches for someone to fill the role on a permanent basis next year. Holzberger, also QIC executive general manager of client ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
Just about five years ago in late 2003, then Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello flagged the possibility of retiring the Commonwealth government debt and effectively shutting down the country's bond market. While markets had no argument against ...

Ho hum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
The Australian equity market rallied nearly 6 per cent yesterday - its biggest one-day advance in more than 10 years. Ho-hum. Given the spectacular volatility in the equity markets over the past few months, daily movements of plus or minus 5-7 percent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger today as the majority of world markets continued to make gains on the back of government action to stimulate economic activity. At 0803 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on ...

Dragon still on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
The global financial crisis may have dealt severe blows to many Western economies, but an expert on China predicts the communist country's investment opportunities remain robust despite the forecasted international slowdown. Xisu Wang, principal consultant ...

Three rich beggars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
'There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington D.C. and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands.' This was US Democratic representative Gary Ackerman's comments to the CEO's of the big three US carmakers ...

First Quadrant taps global macro trends to gain 12pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
Fund manager First Quadrant returned 12 per cent in the three months to September by taking a contrarian view on how to exploit volatility in equities, debt and currency markets. The California-based manager, represented locally by Affiliated Managers ...