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Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
It was always going to be this way in every reporting season. There will be surprises - pleasant and nasty. The Dow slipped from the 10,000 mark at the close of trading last week on the back of surprises - the nasty kind - from lower than expected profit ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... early believers. But there's still plenty to go around. And where Wall Street goes, there also the rest of the world. Pleasant surprises overnight made the Dow's reclamation of 10,000 real easy. Intel beat both profit and revenue expectations for the ...

Show me the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... it overcompensate? - for their pessimism last season. By raising the hurdle rate, they have also raised the odds of a pleasant surprise when companies report their actual results. And as this piece mused only a few days ago, this time investors might ...

Earnings surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
... Nothing...as far as Alcoa's better-than-expected bottomline is concerned. It was eerily similar to the second quarter where the pleasant profit surprise was mainly driven by cost reduction (labour and raw materials) and not rising demand. Cost cutting ...

Shadow of a doubt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
Could it be that the shadow of doubt is slowly creeping back into market consciousness? Sure, Wall Street jumped last night but why didn't the justifications sound as convincing as say, back in the first half of the year, when green shoots were all ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
"War is over, if you want it, want is over now" (John Lennon) Wall Street have resumed its upward trek after tripping some weeks back as number crunchers lowered company profit expectations and the dumping of warm bodies on the unemployment heap continued ...

Vanguard ETFs hit $20m mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Vanguard Investment Australia's three exchange traded funds (ETFs) have attracted $20 million in just two months. Robin Bowerman, head of retail at Vanguard Investments Australia, said while figures are yet to be finalised, the Australian equities ETF ...

NZ Super suffers $568m loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... "However, the market has remained volatile through September," he cautioned. "The aggregate impact on the Fund, while not pleasant, is not outside the bounds of our long-term expectations to date. Investment opportunities for a long-term fund like ours ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... volume of 10,636 contracts. ABN AMRO Morgan's senior client adviser Bill Bishop said today's steady market advance was a pleasant surprise. "The banks have rebounded nicely," he said. "It's a nice turn around off the back of the relief that Merrill Lynch ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Australian stocks remained firmly in the black at noon after the US Federal Reserve's 75 basis point interest-rate cut and solid results from two major investment banks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 156.1 points, or 3.07 per cent ...