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Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Financial markets were on wait mode overnight - waiting for the Fed's verdict on monetary policy. And they had fun while waiting, for most souls expect the US central bank to continue what it's been since last September - bribing the bears into hibernation ...

Aussie equities to rise another 20% in 2013: Fidelity

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... is also beginning to look more positive. "The current market recovery is starting to resemble those that followed the long bear markets post the 1987 crash and the mid-1970s oil price shock where, some five years after the original correction, the market ...

Global fund managers bullish on equities: HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Not even one global fund manager who responded to a recent HSBC survey is underweight equities, and more than half are underweight cash. HSBC, which released results of its fund manager survey today, said that 75% of global managers have an overweight ...

Something's gotta give

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
It's still the fiscal cliff people. Wall Street closed higher in overnight trade because... C'mon we all know why - because someone heard someone say 'deal'. There were other important stats out of America last night but, as has been the case over the ...

China: economy rising, market sinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
They're still debating the cliff over yonder on Wall Street. And the headlines remain full of it - deal is close... no, it's not. And so it will be until the midnight hour when both sides of the US political divide shake hands, agree to kick the problem ...

Obama re-election to boost healthcare and banking stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... taxes to fund the initiative come on stream. "On the other hand, you have those hospital companies that no longer have to bear the losses of taking on non-paying patients and may therefore experience an uptick." Birkhold says that lying somewhere between ...

Bear market end in sight: AMP Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
There are some pretty good signs that the secular bear market may be coming to an end, according to AMP Capital's Shane Oliver. Since the galling crash of the dotcom bubble in the summer of 2000, the stock market has struggled to provide investors with ...

PwC partner banned from auditing

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
A Melbourne partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers has been banned from auditing until 2015, said the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC). The corporate watch dog accepted an enforceable undertaking from former Centro auditor Stephen Cougle ...

Most consumers distrust advisers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... capacity for regulatory initiatives to effectively address underlying financial issues and believe they will be forced to bear extra costs arising from the changes. The study gives a worrying snap-shot of the industry in the run up to the government's ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Whatever the outcome of the US election, the President will have to face up to fiscal cliff or jeopardise the global recovery, according to Standard Life Investment's Andrew Milligan. With both presidential candidates rounding the final corner of their ...