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What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
It's Veterans Day holiday in the United States - a day celebrating the signing of the Armistice that brought World War I to its formal end. And as the world celebrated the end of the first world war that happened nine decades and two years ago, the ...

Simulate my retirement: Telstra Super

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... savings - introducing a new calculator that takes into account career breaks, having time off for children, and even a holiday to the Bahamas. The Telstra Super Simulator allows users to generate a realistic whole-of-life snapshot of how their current ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... the Australian share market closed lower after little direction from Wall Street where trading was thin due to a public holiday. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 79.3 points, or 1.69 per cent, at 4,618.2 points while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Retiree living costs fall despite CPI jump

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... fall of 1.8 per cent in the quarter, the largest quarterly drop since the CPI series began in 1989. The cost of domestic holiday travel and accommodation fell by 6 per cent with the cost of overseas holiday travel and accommodation falling by 1.9 per ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
It was another ho-hum day on Wall Street last night. Nothing much was expected, nothing much transpired. US stocks ended flat in light trading activity as the bond market and government offices closed in celebration of the day Christopher Columbus came ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Another week, another dollar will be gained or lost. Or perhaps, I should say, another week, another dollar gained, then lost, then... Yes Virginia, such is the financial markets' current collective myopia that while there had been a lot of shakin' ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
Move on people, there wasn't a lot of shaking that went on in Wall Street last night. The US equity market closed almost as flat as pancake after the US Commerce Department released the latest update on retail sales that - once again - could be interpreted ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... and cautious data points coming out from overseas as well," he said. With US markets closed overnight for the Labor Day holiday and Europe trading on low volumes, there was no clear lead for investors from offshore. At 1200 AEST the big four banks were ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open flat. US markets were closed overnight for a public holiday, while European markets finished firmer. At 0703 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was down one point ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
And they're off... and running! The bears are back loitering the financial playgrounds hand in hand with the sensationalist media and heads that talk on your PCs, laptops, iPhones or plain old HDTV screens. Apparently we're now just a click away from ...