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When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... economy was stronger than first calculated (up 2.5 per cent from the initial estimate of 2.0 per cent), but the Fed's FOMC minutes - you know, the one where they announced mo' money, US$600 billion of it - revealed their concern over growth and the unemployment. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... contract was 16 points higher at 4,723 points. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases the minutes of its November 2 monetary policy meeting. The Melbourne Institute releases its Wages Report for the three months to November ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Demystifying the "flash crash"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... markets did not cause the "flash crash" of May 6 where US equity markets dramatically declined and recovered in a matter of minutes. In a recent inquiry into the abnormal market behaviour, the US Commodity Trading and Futures Commission (CFTC) and the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was higher at noon, as the market digested the minutes of the latest Reserve Bank monetary policy meeting, released late on Tuesday morning. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18 points, or 0.39 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... was 41 points higher at 4,696 points. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) publishes the minutes of its October 5 monetary policy meeting. In equities news, ANZ Banking Group Ltd chief executive Mike Smith addresses a Trans-Tasman ...

QE2 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... the US Federal Reserve had already been preparing for this since its FOMC meeting last 21 September. According to the minutes of the FOMC meeting: "In light of the considerable uncertainty about the current trajectory for the economy, some members saw ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... index contract was 42 points higher at 4,693. In economics news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia publishes the minutes of its September 7 Monetary Policy Meeting, and Suncorp releases its Life Consumer Sentiments survey. In equities news, Fortescue ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... high, a good result given a mixed US lead. "What has given a little bit of momentum to our market is news in the last 20 minutes or so that the Bank of Japan has intervened to weaken the strengthening yen, which has turned the Nikkei around and we're ...

New tech offers high data protection

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... interest to many professionals in the wealth management industry as it provides creates incremental backups every five minutes, which means a user could roll back their system, files, and folders to any point in time. Howe pointed out however, that for ...