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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
The Australian market looks set to open flat on Wednesday, if it follows Tuesday's local trend and after only a 20 point rise on the US market overnight. At 0719 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was down 14 points ...

A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... Five Recession worries, it seems, travel fast. After doing a tour of the USA, they are now doing the rounds of Europe. The spark? The cancer in the periphery is spreading to the core. Germany - the lynchpin, the tower of strength, that's keeping some ...

Capital protected products shine in gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Nervous market sentiment is prompting demand for defensive investments and sparking innovation with the Commonwealth Bank pondering new capital protected product structures. Moghseen Jadwat, head of business development for structured investments at ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Australian stocks plunged at the open after world markets fell sharply overnight and experts say more grief is to come. At time of writing, the All Ordinaries Index was down 173 points or 3.97% to 4179.9 while the S&P ASX 200 had given up 156.5 points ...

Higher US interest rates possible on downgrade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... price to drop. The interest rate then rises as the issuer tries to attract more lenders. A decline in treasury prices could spark unexpected effects. Treasuries are widely held as collateral in clearing houses for financial derivatives, the Financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
The Australian dollar set a new record overnight but drifted lower in the early morning session, on renewed concern about Europe's debt crisis. At 0700 AEST on Thursday, the Australian dollar was trading at 110.23 US cents, down from 110.55 US cents ...

DC theatrics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... as far as the eye can see. It's priced in! The announcement of a deal on the debt ceiling when - not if - it comes would spark short-covering and additional purchases on Wall Street.

Real estate may cause super tax headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
Real estate investments within superannuation would cause the biggest issue when pension-phase funds revert to accumulation on the death of the member, a self-managed super fund expert said today. David Busoli, national head of education for Cavendish ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... back to square one. The bottom line is that Europe remains one big mess. It might look better today but it'll continue to spark intermittent jitters on financial markets. Just you wait. But as for Wall Street, those with bearish leanings and are handing ...

Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... to a default on US Treasury debt obligations. US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned that a US default would spark a major international economic crisis. "The Treasury security is viewed as the safest and most liquid security in the world ...