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Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... scared off your pants to know that the S&P 500 index posted its biggest weekly loss in 2012. It fell an earth-shattering, heart-thumping 2.0% last week! You'll break into a cold sweat reading about Spanish 10-year bond yields breaking above 6% or that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
The Australian market is set to open higher after stocks on Wall Street posted large gains on a surge in lending in China and a rise in eurozone industrial production. At 0802 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 27 points ...

What Wen wants, Wen gets, when Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... daily heartbeats. As for commodities, the UBS Bloomberg Constant Maturity Commodity Index dropped by a mammoth, gargantuan, heart-stopping 0.3% last night. All because a succession of economic releases suggest that there's big trouble brewing in China. ...

Super contributions break through $1 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
In the past 13 years, $1 trillion has been contributed into superannuation funds while the proportion of benefits paid as lump sums has plummeted. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has just released its Annual Superannuation Bulletin for ...

Zurich updates Life Risk product

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... top professional rating and according to Zurich, lower premium rates. Zurich said it had also changed its definition of a heart attack to more closely align with new clinical guidelines, also taking into account any other changes down the road. Marc ...

Asteron Life launches adviser friendly package

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... simplified income protection range with reduced pricing for occupations and ages, new definitions of commonly used terms such as heart attack, which now includes 'silent' (minor) heart attack. Other features include rehabilitation benefits for self-employed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... Nasdaq Composite lost 8.07 (0.27 per cent) to 2,951.78. LONDON - European stock markets closed higher as investors took heart from the latest comments on the Greek debt crisis and positive US economic data, analysts said. In London, the FTSE 100 index ...

The martyrdom of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Hero! Legend! Happy Valentine's Day Greece. I heart you Greece. There's no two ways about it, financial markets responded with a warm, fuzzy feeling (in their pockets) to the Greek Parliament's V-day present - approval of the latest austerity package ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... growth rate since the first quarter of 2010 - and more disappointing earnings results weighed on sentiment. But markets took heart from reports that debt-laden Greece is close to reaching a deal with its creditors and news that the White House plans ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... growth rate since the first quarter of 2010 - and more disappointing earnings results weighed on sentiment. But markets took heart from reports that debt-laden Greece is close to reaching a deal with its creditors and news that the White House plans ...