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Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... right. They're piling back into the US dollar. Reports overnight tells of China resuming its purchases of US Treasuries in March -- the first in six months. According to Bloomberg, "Treasury holdings by China rose 2 percent in March to US$895.2 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
The Australian share market is set to rise on Tuesday after Wall Street and some European markets managed small gains despite continuing concerns about the impact of Europe's debt problems on a global economic recovery. At 0731 AEST on the Sydney Futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open in positive territory after investor confidence boost US stocks overnight. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 59 points higher at 4,642 points. In economics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
The Australian share market has received strongly positive leads from offshore trading overnight, as markets rebounded on optimism following the European rescue plan. At 0657 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was ...

Van Eyk head of strategic research joins Future Fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Nigel Wilkin-Smith, head of strategic research at van Eyk, has left the research house after several years to join the Future Fund's strategy team - the second senior staff to leave the firm in less than a year. Wilkin-Smith said it was a difficult ...

... and hires three to fill research

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Van Eyk has made three new appointments including former New York-based Standard & Poor's analyst, John O'Brien, as head of research. O'Brien replaces Nigel Douglas who left the firm in March to join Perpetual. He spent nine years at Standard & Poors ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
Feeding the fear. Times like these, it's not so difficult to do. Just replace the word "Greece" with "global" in Greece sovereign crisis and what do you have? You have Global Sovereign Crisis and the attendant panic and volatility in the financial markets ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
What does it take to wipe out more than US$1,000,000,000,000 on Wall Street? Punching "B" instead of "M" on your keyboard. Panic set on Wall Street overnight as the Dow went into a freefall to record its worst ever intra-day drop of 998.5 points. Was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to post a huge decline at the start of Friday's trading day, following a horror night on offshore markets as Wall Street shed more than three per cent and commodities prices went backwards. At 0757 AEST on the ...

Maritime looks beyond life risk

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
Maritime Super is joining the growing number of funds expanding their insurance offerings, and is looking to offer health, car, home and travel insurance. According to a statement by the fund, Maritime Super is teaming up with Superannuation Insurances ...