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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... interest rate sensitive underlying measure came in at 0.4 per cent quarter on quarter, and 2.3 per cent year on year, well inside the Reserve Bank of Australia's target of two to three per cent. "We saw a rather subdued CPI (consumer price index) print ...

Covered bond conundrum

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... Investment Corporation, welcomed the initiative but noted that, as a form of secured lending, covered bonds were likely to price inside unsecured debt and therefore offer lower yields than current bank paper. He said that covered bonds would provide ...

ASIC slaps tough penance for fin services misconduct

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
In a landmark case, a young broker charged with multiple counts of insider trading has received a four-and-a-half year jail sentence, the highest sentence on record for that offence in Australia. On December 2 John Joseph Hartman, 25, of Mosman, New ...

Direct share investing gather momentum

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... increasing alongside the explosive growth in self-managed super funds. "Direct equities is the single biggest component inside self-managed super at around 30 per cent," Tuck said. Tuck outlined a range of benefits of direct equity investing offers including ...

Tyndall names head of retail

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... for retail since February, after being with Tyndall since 2007 as national key account manager. "He knows our business inside out, and has an excellent understanding of the needs of financial planners and intermediaries," said Craig Hobart, managing ...

US insider trading probe rocks hedge fund community

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
The US government is turning the screws on the investment community and it could affect firms with significant presences in Australia. Over the past 48 hours, as part of a wide-ranging insider trading probe, the FBI has raided a number of hedge funds ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Pick your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Blame it on the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in America. Financial markets are running around like headless Turkeys trying to find the nearest exit away from the oven. There was heavy selling on Wall Street overnight and then... buy backs. At lot of ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq went the opposite way, closing 0.3 per cent lower on the day the FOMC revealed what's inside its head. Can't blame Wall Street. For while it seems that a lot of things have happened since the recession ended last June ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
"But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head, yes I do." -- Peter Sarstedt We, mere mortals, watching the financial market's daily gyrations and the regular drip ...