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Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... friends make it out to be. This is because European authorities are aware of what awaits them if they don't do something, anything. Even Germany would suffer if the Eurozone members go their own ways. The German deutschemark would shoot up, German competitiveness ...

Coalition clears up FOFA questions

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... that is supposed to take effect July 1, 2012. "It demonstrates the absolute incompetence and lack of capacity to manage anything by this administration," Cormann said.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... (zone) is still up in the air, and people are still on the side that they will have to leave at some point," he said. "Anything can happen in Europe at the moment, so people are probably still fairly nervous." In the resource sector, BHP Billiton was ...

Eurozone turmoil sparks 'flight-to-quality'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... should be considered one of the flight -to-quality alternatives for investors to consider when moving out of equities. "Anything that's deemed as a true flight to quality asset, the more stress in the global economy, the better those assets will do. ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... Italy have already increased by between 40 and 60 basis points just on the prospect of a Greek exit alone. At this point, anything can still happen. Still, the path of least pain would be to keep Greece in.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... the negative start. "Good news is hard to come by," Ms Chan said. "I think it will be a soft kind of day, don't expect anything more than that." The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,557.90 per fine ounce, down $US19.45 from Monday's local close ...

You beauty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... waiting, waiting. Waiting for him to prove me right, that tightening the country's purse strings too much too soon cannot be anything but contractionary. Boy, I was so very wrong. I was wrong because what he took from big companies, defence and foreign ...

SFG to close competitive gap

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... - which is the Big 4 banks and AMP/AXA, which are huge. You've got the industry funds aggregating and you haven't got anything in particular that's client/advice focused." Fenning pointed to the current tough economic conditions and the rate of change ...

China's consumption underestimated

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... manufacturing challenges, wherever China can seize market share they have already done it, they cannot go out and do anything new anymore." Exports have essentially collapsed, according to Tan, who believes single digit growth is equivalent to collapse ...

China a good bet in the long run: Thawley

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... the Bo Xi Lai incident encapsulated many issues within China. He said "the internal problems China faces are as bad as anything we have seen since Tiananmen Square." "We know very little about the ruling communist party and the episode exposes the corruption ...