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1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... then? Oil prices are rocketing again... as should be expected. They'll go even higher if the rolling people power protests heads into the major oil producers' turf in the mideast. This would be bad news for a global economy that's just getting back on ...

Yakety yak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... the weekend. Yes, there was! Honest. Am sure many have heard of the meeting in Paris where the world's 20 most powerful heads talked to discuss the collective economic and financial fate of the rest of us but as most correctly assumed... it was all yakety ...

People powered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... international community. There was jubilation on the streets of that country by the Nile and congratulatory remarks by various heads of states on the triumph of people power in Egypt. But Mubarak's departure doesn't mean instant sunshine in the land ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... sharemarket briefly edged up to a new 29-month high during Tuesday's session, but ended with a touch of pessimism, as the market heads into the results season. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed down 4.24 points at 3,383.17, having crossed 3,389 earlier ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... on the report that shows that US employers added only 36,000 warm bodies in January -less than a quarter of the 145,000 heads that financial markets expected to be signed in on their payrolls. Private sector employment growth also decelerated to only ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... look at the frenzy now supposedly gripping the nation as Oprah Winfrey receives adulation normally reserved for visiting heads of state? This morning in Sydney at the Oprah House, the nation's latest favourite tourism patron filmed the first of her two ...

More turbulence ahead: De Bever

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... economy is on the cusp of "a huge structural shift, probably one that we haven't seen since 1900." Leo De Bever, who now heads up the $75 billion Alberta Investment Management Corporation in Canada, made the comments in a wideranging presentation to ...

BlackRock appoints head of iShares Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... ASX has increased by 36 per cent over the last year. Tim Bradbury and Adam Seccombe previously occupied the role, as co-heads of iShares Australia, before Bradbury left in late 2009 to his current role as head of investor solutions at Barclays Capital ...

BFG to integrate firms

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... Brent Potts, Southern Cross founder will stay on as a non-executive director for BFG. "Alongside the Bell Potter division heads, Southern Cross executives will take up key management roles in the new single broking firm and we are delighted that Southern ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... whac-a-mole 2.0 is an upgraded, bigger version where instead of only financial institutions, whole national government's heads are included for extra fun. Yes Virginia, just when we thought that the Fed has whack the head of deflation and unemployment ...