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Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... traffic one way or another. But the blogomentaries on Wall Street this morning has got my goose. You don't have to go pass Bloomberg's headline, "Most U.S. Stocks Retreat Amid Dell's Decline, Comments From Fed Officials" to know why. But in case, you ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... short term futures on the S&P went up by 194% while VIX spot volatility rose 150%, according to figures from CBOE and Bloomberg showed at the presentation. This can be used to hedge a portfolio. "Doesn't it make sense to add a small part of your portfolio ...

Digit says recession averted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... French rumour was just that, you'll read in today's headlines that, "Stocks Surge on Tempered Concern About Recession" (Bloomberg). And financial markets reached this conclusion because? Because of that volatile weekly report that showed US jobless claims ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... markets - which, in turn, puts upward pressure on inflation around the globe. When the Fed announced QE2 last November, Bloomberg reported that, "A group of 23 economists, money managers and former government officials issued an open letter to Bernanke ...

UniSuper nominates Bloomberg as asset manager

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
UniSuper announced its selection of Bloomberg as partner in its internal management of its Australian equities portfolio with more super funds following suit. In June last year, UniSuper moved its equities management in-house and away from fund managers ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... 4120.0. The losses add to three days of large falls that have wiped an estimated $65 billion from the market's value. Bloomberg market data showed the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 512.76 points or 4.3% overnight to close at 11,383.7 while the ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... Pardon moi, I meant 'because of'. Yes, because the more of these we get, the stronger the case for QE3 becomes. Here's Bloomberg's take: "Stocks rebounded after the Wall Street Journal reported that three former top officials at the Fed said the central ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... National Bureau of Economic Research, said he sees a 50 percent chance that the U.S. will relapse into another recession" (Bloomberg). Wall Street erased all of its 2011 gains overnight - and then some. Last night's 2.6% tumble takes the S&P 500 index ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... should be able to keep its AAA "even if the nation's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit isn't raised by Tuesday's deadline" (Bloomberg) - echoing Standard & Poor's statement issued days before. Yes, they were the same ones warning about giving Uncle Sam ...

ING Investment adopts Bloomberg Platform

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
ING Investment Management has adopted Bloomberg's research platform to keep connected with trade idea performance worldwide. ING IM is the first investment firm to use this technology which provides a network for portfolio managers to communicate with ...