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Fed will lift later this year if...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Too bad for Wall Street, the closing bell has already rung even before US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen uttered her first word on "Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy" at the At the Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture, University of Massachusetts ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
"Not happy, Jan!" This was Wall Street's immediate verdict on the Fed's disclosure of its non-decision following the much-awaited and much speculated 16-17 September FOMC meeting. The S&P 500 index declined by 1.6%; the Dow by 1.7%; Nasdaq by 1.4% ...

Global Financial Inclusion winners announced

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
The Wall Street Journal's Financial Inclusion Challenge, supported by the MetLife Foundation, has been recognised by The Asia Society in Hong Kong. The Challenge is a global project launched in Asia to recognise innovative, sustainable, scalable strategies ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... it's true. The thing is the Australian equity market's recovery would always be tentative unless it gets the go signal from Wall Street. Last night, it did. The Dow and the S&P 500 soared - 4.0% and 3.9%, respectively - at the closing bell. It wasn't ...

Liquidator appointed in suicide case

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
ASIC has appointed a liquidator for six investment management companies linked to a Perth-based promoter, who is believed to have taken his own life after defrauding investors for years. The Federal Court of Australia has made orders appointing EY partner ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... equipment purchases because of lower oil prices, in part because of the string US dollar because of lift-off expectations. Wall Street seemed to be. The S&P 500 index closed more than half a percent on the up while yield on 10-year US Treasuries closed ...

Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
The word governance only appears nine times in the Wallace report, but 48 times in the Murray report, and many more times than that in the Cooper report. "Everything gets blamed on poor governance," Herbert Smith Freehills and university lecturer Scott ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... to get the first tranche by 20 August - the same day its next debt repayment to the ECB is due. China happy, Europe happy, Wall Street happy - the S&P 500 up 1.3% -- happier still courtesy of Warren. Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway is reportedly buying Precision ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street following a mixed batch of earnings reports and another big decline by technology giant Apple. At 0815 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was down ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street where weakness in petroleum-linked equities weighed on stocks following poor earnings from ExxonMobil and Chevron and a drop in oil prices At 0820 AEST on Monday, the September ...