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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
Australian shares have fallen, as pessimism about the European debt crisis continues. At 1200 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 15.6 points, or 0.39 per cent, at 4,012.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 16 points ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open more than three quarters of a per cent lower after falls on the US and European markets overnight. At 0840 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 34 points, or 0.83 per cent, at ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher after a marginally mixed performance on Wall Street following the Federal Reserve's less-than-hoped-for stimulus announcement. At 0800 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
No mas por fabor ! You're probably as tired sick of reading about Greece, Spain, QEs and changing rhetoric from the who's who of the G-20 as I am writing about them. Good thing equity markets in Australia and Asia were able to celebrate Greece's decision ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... full extent of the reduction. Stephen Bartholomeusz, writing for Business Spectator, thinks that "the RBA should have held fire... and waited to see how the crisis within the eurozone and the slowing of China's economy plays out". But for the AFR, "the ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... businesses retreat in anticipation of a faster slowdown. Or, combined with the weakening A$, could raise inflation fears. Hold fire. The mining sector continues to boom - heck, they're even running out of workers so that Gina has to import more than ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
There were really no fresh talking points I could find on cyberspace last night, just a flipping of the flop in sentiment seen over the past few days. For last night we got news that US unemployment claims came in a thousand heads better than expected. ...

SMSFs face fire-sales of illiquid assets

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... sold after their death, according to an SMSF advice and training provider. The consequences of this oversight could be the fire-sale of the property, with the risk of it being sold well below its market value, or of beneficiaries being liable for hefty ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
Instant replay. What we've seen last week seemed to be a replay of the general theme that has been playing at computer screens near us for some time now. There's the ever-simmering European sovereign debt crisis that creates tension in the financial ...

Market Wrap-Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher after solid German business confidence data and stronger profits from Microsoft, McDonald's and other major US corporations helped the Dow Jones finish about 0.5 per cent higher. At 0800 AEST on ...