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Cypriot banks to re-open sans banking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
"You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!" - Hotel California (Eagles) Tonight at exactly 2100 hours (9pm) Aussie time, banks all over Cyprus will re-open and from what I read, it's not like Hotel California. You cannot check out ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... Emirates. Qantas was up 2.75 cents at $1.7475. In other airline news, the High Court of Singapore gave its blessing to Virgin Australia's takeover of regional carrier Skywest, in an announcement after the close of trade on Tuesday. Virgin was steady ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
You gotta give it to the Europeans, they sure know how to shoot themselves in the foot. Financial markets celebrated after reports that a deal had been struck between the government of Cyprus and its benefactors. Nobody gave two hoots whether it's a ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...

ASIC steps up investigation into SMSF fraud

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... set up SMSFs and make investments in distressed properties in the USA through MOGS and companies domiciled in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. These assets were then knowingly used for purposes other than those intended by the investors ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
It's beginning to sound like a broken record ever since the Dow broke its 2007 record on the 5th of March 2013...and talks about the Dow are yet to stop - whether it'll continue heading higher, consolidate or reverse at some point. Guilty, your honour! ...

Virgin blazes trail with redundancy cover

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
Virgin Money Australia plans to roll out a full suite of insurance products following a phenomenal take-up of its existing offering, including income cover that pays up to $3,000 a month if the insured is made redundant. The group's managing director ...

Virgin Money Australia names MD

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Virgin Group has appointed David Curneen as managing director of Virgin Money Australia following his stewardship of the business as acting managing director since February last year. The appointment follows a period of significant growth across all ...

Bernanke pours liquid over Roman burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
The title just about describes the events of last night and the one before. Woe to Europe that's feeling antsy pantsy over Italy's result - or should I say, non-result - and the extrapolation of this into "skyfall" (Finally, I got the chance to use ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... shed 12 cents, or 1.19 per cent, to $9.93 despite flagging a rise of up to 20 per cent in full year profit. Meanwhile, Virgin Australia shares lost one cent, or 2.3 per cent, to 42.5 cents, after revealing its first half profit has slumped by 56 per ...