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Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
It's another one of those days - those days of rumours and gossips and whispers. And oh, digging around for reasons on why the glass is half empty. It was risk on after cyberspace got wind of ECB council member Ewald Nowotny telling Bloomberg that the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... to 3081.74 points and Frankfurt's DAX 30 rose by 0.25 per cent to 6406.52 points as investors set aside news of sliding German investor confidence. Italian and Spanish markets rebounded, clawing back some of their recent losses suffered on eurozone debt ...

ESG sheds light on Sov debt crisis: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... fears grow that Spain will need a full international bailout. On Monday ratings agency Moody's lowered the outlook for the German economy to "negative" from "stable" - along with a similar move for the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
Uh-oh, looks like the EU has not kicked that pestering debt crisis can far enough down the road. Wasn't it only a few days ago (last Friday) that they approved Spain's a,-100 billion bail? And not even a month has passed since their announcement of ...

Deutsche Bank job cuts

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
Deutsche Bank Australia has declined to either confirm or deny recent job cut rumours. Bloomberg yesterday reported that Deutsche Bank would consider cutting up to 1000 positions in its investment bank after declines in revenue. The job cuts would be ...

Bad news? Where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... 7.0% -- you know, the level at which Greece, Ireland and Portugal asked for a bailout. No wait, Spain already did and the German Parliament just approved its a,-100 billion rescue package last night. So that's good news. Then again, Spain also had a ...

REST Industry Super delivers 0.85%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
REST Industry Super has delivered a positive 2011-12 return of 0.85% for its default Core option and 1.18% for same option in the pension division. The result having a 'plus' in front of it, stands in sharp contrast to the -7% delivered by the Australian ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
The bulls - already dwindling in numbers by the day - must now be starting to find religion as the only means of delivering them from eternal damnation - in the financial sense, of course. For this time, Virginia, the sky does really look like it's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fell amid lingering doubts over Spain's bailout package. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up one point at 4,065. In economic news on Thursday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... market. We're not really taking any cues from anywhere today." He said the local market would trade in a tight range ahead of German inflation figures and the release of US Federal Reserve minutes on Wednesday night. Defensive stocks such as Telstra ...