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Cost of share trading spikes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
The cost of trading Asian and Australian equities rose by 150 per cent last year compared to a year ago after bid-ask spreads widened to abnormal levels during the credit crisis, according to research. Trading cost data and analysis provider ITG released ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... jobless rate jumped the most in Western Australia. Unemployment there SURGED to 3 per cent from 2.3 per cent. Give me a spike in unemployment to 3 per cent anytime. So how do these beautiful set of numbers reconcile with recent headlines printing about ...

Four Bad 'Bers'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... how much. They each could cut their respective benchmark interest rates by 200 basis points this week and send a knee-jerk spike to equity markets. But in the end, just as the previous rallies that preceded it during the awful 'ber' months, this would ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... rise in the price of oil seemed unstoppable. The year 2007 ended with crude finishing at US$96.01 a barrel, a 90.2 per cent spike from the US$50.49 January 2007 low. Early 2008 was not looking any different. The price of crude oil broke above the US$100/barrel ...

First home buyers tap $21k bonus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
... first home buyers' grant to $14,000 as well as $21,000 for those purchasing newly constructed homes as the catalyst to the spike in property interest. In Queensland, the State Government's removal of stamp duty on properties worth up to $500,000 was ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... trusts in particular are the indirect casualties because after the guarantee was announced a week ago, have witnessed a spike in withdrawals. To date four of the country's top ten mortgage fund providers - Perpetual, AXA, Challenger and AUI - have all ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... But were investors truly jubilant because their confidence has been restored by the new US bailout plan? Or was the upward spike more a consequence of a large number of investment managers covering their short positions? The answer may lie in between. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... Japanese share prices hit their lowest level in nearly six months on Friday, losing 2.75 per cent after weak US data, with a spike in the yen hitting exporter stocks. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei 225 index lost 345.43 points to close at ...

AMP's profits down 2pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
... million compared to $1.19 billion for the previous corresponding quarter. The decrease was mainly driven by the one-off spike in inflows in the second quarter of 2007, following legislative changes at that time. In Contemporary Wealth Management, which ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market was up at noon as News Corporation Ltd reported robust fourth-quarter and full-year results. In the US, the Dow spiked after the US Federal Reserve left interest rates on hold, assuaging some of the market's fears about the ...