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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Australian shares may decline slightly after US stocks fell on Friday as talks to reach an agreement over the US debt ceiling continued to feed market uncertainty. But mining stocks may gain after some metals, including gold, silver and copper, rose. ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Deal! This single word was music to the ears of investors everywhere. After weeks of restless anxiety, it came to pass - the powers-that-are in Washington agreed to raise the nation's US$14,300,000,000,000 debt ceiling. True to script the negotiations ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... bet on the debt ceiling. It is not. There'll only be one result. Deal. The implications will too great to deal with. You worry about US unemployment? That will grow when government cannot pay its bills. You worry about consumer spending? That will drop ...

Big six use advisers for sales while clients confused on independence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
Financial advisers aligned to major wealth-management firms are continuing to direct the majority of the funds they establish to their parent fund manager, a study released today by Roy Morgan Research has found. The Superannuation and Wealth Management ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... the broader All Ordinaries index fell 69.2 points, or 1.47 per cent, to 4,646.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks plummeted as worry about Europe's worsening debt crisis clouded markets already weaker after Friday's poor United States economic data. The Dow ...

China-Gillard tug o' war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
There was no shortage of unsettling events for domestic investors to worry about over the past 12 months but still Australian equities achieved positive returns for fiscal year 2010/2011. The S&P/ASX 300 index rose by 7.3 per cent - 11.9 per cent including ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... recession." Shiller warned that "the economy right now faced a "tipping point" and "...I'm seeing signs that encourage me to worry about that." It's a real bad hair day for risk assets today, made even worse by the continued failure of European authorities ...

Coalition adopts ALP super clearing house model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... cheques - a development banks have recently announced they are starting to consider - at least now have one less thing to worry about.

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
"Fear is in the air Everywhere I look around Fear is in the air Every sight and every sound And I don't know if I'm being foolish Don't know if I'm being wise But it's something that I must believe in And it's there when I look in your eyes." (my apologies ...

Dropping home ownership rates leave retirement funding hole

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
Falling home ownership rates mean a quarter of all future retirees may not own their own home, undermining key assumptions of previous retirement affordability studies, REST Industry Super said yesterday. The worrying figures come from research tabled ...