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Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... - they answered the markets' prayers. Still, there were unbelievers (hello Stuart my friend) pointing to still weak indicators despite the announcements. But look now - the indicators are beginning to turn... almost everywhere. China's official PMI increased ...

Market wrap Early AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... per cent, to 1,427.59, while the Nasdaq added 42.83 points, or 1.44 per cent, at 3,020.06. The encouraging economic indicators lifted investor sentiment ahead of Friday's keenly awaited October jobs report, the final snapshot of the economy before the ...

Triple bypass needed to resurrect NAB's UK business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... reasonable sale price. That is according to Elio D'Amato, chief executive of stock market solutions provider Lincoln Indicators. The underperformance of NAB's UK business was behind the bank's 22% fall in net profit for the full-year to 30 September. ...

QE3, OMT, APP equals D-U-D?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012

UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

Economic indicators defy equities upside: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
Equities remain an attractive investment despite a dismal global growth forecast, an over-inflated Aussie dollar and unprecedented levels of developed world government debt, according to Schroders' Andrew Fleming. The deputy head of Australian equities ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... official global growth downgrade signals that it's buy time once more. Remember that the IMF is one of my fave contrarian indicators for almost always, equity markets go up after it slashes global growth prediction. It might even be easier this time ...

APRA issues final Basel III reforms

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... banks will also face a countercyclical buffer of up to 2.5% that will apply when excessive credit growth and other indicators point to a system-wide build up of risk. Dr John Laker chairman of APRA said that the stronger Australian banking system that ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... consumer confidence jumped to 70.3 in September - the highest since February (hey, that was the time when nearly all indicators were coming in better than expected, weren't they?) - from 61.3 in the previous month. More telling, the expectations index ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... the Fed could lose credibility. LONDON - European stock markets posted gains at the close as encouraging US economic indicators boosted sentiment on both sides of the Atlantic. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares added 0.36 per cent to 5859.71 ...