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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... half results are due from Prime Media Group Ltd, Platinum Asset Management Ltd, and Billabong International Ltd. Dual-listed Sky Television Ltd releases first half results in New Zealand. Caltex Australia Ltd is to release annual results. ANZ Banking ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... trying to preserve. Be careful what you wish for. It does not help working Australians up to a lather predicting that the sky will fall and only negates what our monetary and fiscal institutions are trying to accomplish. There is no harm in talking up ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... still find the odds stacked against them and are instead hiding them in their cookie jars - just in case. Given all these, the sky appears to be really falling. This reminds me of Glum's - one of the Lilliputian characters in the old cartoon 'The Adventures ...

Big Sky to aid BHP staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
Big Sky Financial Solutions plans to provide general and personal financial advice to those members of its parent credit union affected by BHP Billiton mine closures. Paul Evans, Big Sky Financial Solutions director, said the financial planning division ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... US$0.85 in the third quarter, the A$ is now trading just above US$0.60. It is certainly headline grabbing to print that the sky is falling and that the glass is half-empty. But as we speak, this same glass is being filled.

Snowball FUA grows $700m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... businesses busily consolidating over that time frame. In October, Snowball subsidiary Outlook Financial Solutions and Big Sky Credit Union signed a joint venture agreement to create Big Sky Financial Solutions to tap into the mining rich towns of South ...

Don't worry, be happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... Australia, and for other countries indirectly touched by the financial sector maelstrom, is that their expectations that the sky might fall could become a reality. While it is true that production and sales and employment are falling because of reduced ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... recession, but fiscal and monetary authorities of all shapes and sizes are not just tweedling their thumbs waiting for the sky to fall. The Australian government and the Reserve Bank are among these authorities taking pre-emptive action. This is why ...

Snowball taps mining rich towns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Snowball financial planning subsidiary, Outlook Financial Solutions and Big Sky Credit Union signed a joint venture agreement to create Big Sky Financial Solutions and tap into the latter firm's cashed up mining and construction members. Big Sky Financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after US stocks declined overnight as some traders sold shares to take advantage of the huge gains of he previous two days. At 0752 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney ...