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Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... Independence Day. They're on holiday. This gave me a holiday too... that is, a holiday from the daily noises - shouting the sky is falling - that grow shriller and louder as the flow of economic data turns out to be weaker than expected and Wall Street ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... tightening policies. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market reversed much of Monday's gains in a generally quiet session. Sky City was one of the few stocks to rise despite announcing a one-off hit of $NZ60 million ($A48.52 million) on this year's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
The Australian share market is set to open slightly higher on Thursday as BP's agreement on a $US20 billion fund for victims of the United States oil spill lifted Wall Street to a modest gain. At 0737 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... points, or 0.82 per cent, to 6,175.05 points. News of the News Corp bid for BSkyB sent shares in the German pay TV channel Sky Deutschland, where News Corp holds a 45.2 per cent stake, up more than 18 per cent on speculation Murdoch might try the same ...

Turning Bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... falling and lifting borrowing costs for deficit-ridden countries - resulting in a confirmation of investors' fear that "the sky is falling". As markets come down, wealth is eroded. Consumers start tightening their purses. Businesses begin to see shrinking ...

CFSGAM targets global trends with commodities fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) banks on global trends including population growth, demand for biofuels and the emerging 'middle class' to make a return for investors. The CFSGAM Global Soft Commodity Share fund, launched yesterday ...

Hedge fund Apeiron joins Blue Sky

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
Award-winning hedge fund, Apeiron Global Macro Fund, has joined with Brisbane-based alternative strategies firm, Blue Sky Funds Management, to attract more institutional investment. David Hobart, managing director at Apeiron, said the hedge fund manages ...

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
"Those who don't remember history are condemned to repeat it." How often have we heard this - and variation of this -- "wise saying" before? Many, many, many times. But for financial markets, remembering history on the second week of March 2010 has ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
Guess what? It's the bull market's first anniversary today! Hip..hip... Hooray Virgina! You and I have kept up the faith despite being battered by waves of doubters in an ocean of despair. It was exactly one year ago (9 March 2009) when Wall Street ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... to last Friday's US payrolls report, "we must be over the rainbow!" (Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz). The sun shone, the sky blued and everything became beautiful when reports that the US unemployment rate dropped to 10.0 per cent in November - not ...