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Uncertainty here we come (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
OMG! What in the effing world was he thinking? Just when we thought Europe was moving forward in the right direction, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou had to open his mouth and announce a "referendum" on whether or not his people would accept ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... Monday (local time) called a confidence vote and a national referendum on last week's proposed EU debt deal, a political gamble to silence growing opposition to his policies. Adding to weaker sentiment was data from the world's second-biggest economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... George Papandreou called Monday for a confidence vote and a referendum on last week's EU debt deal, taking a political gamble to silence growing opposition to his policies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average skidded 276.10 points (2.26 per cent) to finish ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... include utility companies American Water Works (AWK) and Consolidated Edison (ED), consumer staples companies Procter & Gamble (PG) and General Electric (GE), and pharmaceutical conglomerate Pfizer (PFE). Outperformance by stocks that operate low-risk ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... since January. Investors had a batch of earnings to digest, including from two Dow components, ExxonMobil and Procter & Gamble. ExxonMobil reported bumper quarterly profits of nearly $US11 billion ($A10.15 billion) as the energy giant benefited from ...

Let's party!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... FOMC meeting since 2010 over the central bank's easy policy stance. He even called the US$600 billion QE2 a "dangerous gamble" and a "bargain with the devil". Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, Richard Fisher of Dallas and Narayana Kocherlakota ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... facing the US economy. Investors were unhappy with just about every major earnings or economic report on Tuesday. Procter & Gamble and Dow Chemical reporting earnings and revenue that fell short of forecasts. A raft of economic data released through ...

Magellan raises cash six-fold on Euro debt fears

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... top 10 holdings include Yum Brands, which includes KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell; eBay; McDonalds; Coca Cola and Proctor & Gamble. "Most of these companies are trading at around 11 to 14 times earnings, it kind of peaks out at around 15 times earnings ...

Death by algorithm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... multiple sources, a trader entered a "b" for billion instead of an "m" for million in a trade possibly involving Procter & Gamble." And with that single keystroke, the machines went to work, sending off a chain reaction of stop loss selling from one ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... reports that a technical glitch or mistaken trade may have been partially to blame for a sudden sharp decline in Procter & Gamble's (P&G) stock. Both Fox News and CNBC reported that a trading error involving P&G stock could have been responsible for ...