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There's the good news and there's the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
So where have all gloom and doomers gone? Yes them - the worrywarts who sent the S&P 500 index tumbling down by as much as 4.2% earlier this month. Where the bloody hell are they now? They should be jumping with joy and wringing their hands with the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... cent, at 4,445.NEW YORK - US stocks have risen despite a series of uneven data and corporate earnings reports that included a big disappointment from oil giant ExxonMobil. Strong US housing data, mediocre jobless claims figures and mixed earnings, spelt ...

GESB awards $2.3bn in bond mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
WA super provider GESB has awarded four global bond investment mandates to Wellington Management Company LLP, Franklin Templeton Investments Australia Ltd and PIMCO Australia Pty Limited, worth a total of $2.3bn. The mandates will cover two global bond ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
If there's something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call? Ben Bernanke! It was a wow day on Wall Street overnight as our friend Ben reinforced this Ben's view that it would be a win-win for equity markets, no matter how the Fed see its ...

Instreet launches new structured product

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... three-year income investment product which aims to balance higher yield against risk by being linked to a basket of Australia's big four banks and delivering quarterly fixed income payments at 11% a year. Instreet managing director, George Lucas said ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
Hands up all those who thought that it would be smooth sailing for Europe this year (or even the next). Hands up all those who thought that the Eurozone would dodge a recession or that many of its members would be able to bring down their debts and ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... markets find it hard to decide which way to jump. But have no fear the Fed is here. The US Federal Reserve 's FOMC meeting - and Big Benny's subsequent press conference - scheduled for this week should provide markets with the much-needed guidance they're ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... Oil Search was up 37 cents, or 5.3 per cent, at $7.36 a day after discovering more gas in a project in Papua New Guinea. The big resources and banking stocks were relatively flat. "Volumes are exceptionally light, so I think the balance of the day would ...

Govt overhauls aged care

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
The introduction of means testing for aged care by the Federal Government is set to reshape the entire industry, with flow-on effects expected for advice. In the biggest revamp of the national aged care system in 15 years, the Gillard Government said ...

It's all in the spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... on France's 5-year paper increased to 1.83% from 1.78% it paid last month. It seems like a dive all right. Two of Europe's big economies paying high interest rates for their borrowings. Spain and France are doomed - according to reports their credit ...