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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 ...

Watching out for the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
I wasn't missing a few screws after all. Yesterday, I ranted and admitted on this space that I was confused with Wall Street's reaction - it was up strongly - despite "headlines upon headlines alluding to a September lift-off". "Wall Street's positive ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, despite a mixed lead from Wall Street where the Dow was dragged lower on a disappointing Procter & Gamble earnings report. At 0754 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up ...