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Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
Just when we thought it was no longer safe to go back into the water...... dip buyers again went buying the dip. We don't have to go very, very far back in history to see this for this was clearly on parade just over the past very few days. Recall how ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace..." -- Imagine, John Lennon On their own, they could have been easily ignored by financial markets - and dip ...

FSI asks industry to consider greater ASIC powers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Australia's financial services industry. In the 460-page interim report released today, the Committee observed that the civil and administrative penalties available to ASIC under current arrangement were "comparatively low in relation to comparable peers ...

Independence Day for the US economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
It was short, but oh so sweeet! Short was last night's trading activity in the New York Stock Exchange - 3.5 hours instead of 6.5 hours -- and we all know what the sweeet was - the Dow gatecrashed through 17K to a new record, the S&P 500 rose to new ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... surged to eight-month highs as violence escalated across northern and central Iraq, increasing the prospect of a return to civil war in OPEC's second-biggest oil producer... WTI advanced 2 percent while Brent gained 2.8 percent." (Bloomberg again). Yikes! ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... British father worked for a company that sold heavy switch gear. But following Nigeria's independence in the early 60s, a civil war ensued that made it too dangerous to remain there, and the family moved to his mother's native Sydney. At the age of 17 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... held on to gains made against the yen in New York. But investors were warily watching Ukraine as diplomats try to avert a civil war. Shanghai ended flat, edging up 0.69 points to 2,028.04. Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul were shut for public holidays. Taipei ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... military crisis in Ukraine spooked investors. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned Ukraine was on the verge of civil war as Kiev launched a military operation against pro-Kremlin militants in the separatist east. London's FTSE 100 ended down ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... per cent last week, which has prompted falls by local banking stocks. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the threat of civil war in Ukraine and the possibility of poor quarterly economic growth numbers from China this week added to the negative sentiment ...