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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... sales figures and steady German business confidence provided some support for nervous investors, while the airline disruption caused by a volcanic eruption in Iceland appeared limited. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed up 0.39 per ...

NGS Super merger too late for tax relief

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... requirements as Stronger Super becomes a reality, said Rodwell-Ball. He also highlighted the importance of causing minimal disruption to members of both funds and retaining UCS staff. "Business and cultural continuity is important so we will do our best ...

Tyndall shifts gears on FI

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Financial planners should encourage clients to reconsider their view on Australian fixed interest, which represents a safe haven investment, said the head of fixed income at a $22 billion fund manager. Roger Bridges of Tyndall Investments Australia ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
It's all quiet on the Wall Street front overnight. The US quarterly company earnings reporting season must be about to commence. Just in case. Trading volume was low and bereft of direction. The Dow was up 0.01 per cent and the S&P 500 was down 0.3 ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
Have money, will travel. The succession of black swan sightings over the past three months have thus far failed to keep financial market optimism down. Equity markets are up, commodity markets are up and so are commodity currencies. Have you seen the ...

Banks loss is super fund gain: IFM

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... Industry Fund Management (IFM), said superannuation funds were flowing to infrastructure debt as trustees see a major disruption in the debt market. "Banks are withdrawing their lending to that sector, providing opportunities for investors like super ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... if necessary because of the country's economic strength. There's Australia's growth premium. Despite the momentary disruption to economic activity caused by the floods and cyclone earlier in the New Year - estimated to cause a 0.5 per cent drag on growth ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
Blink and you would have missed it. Financial markets are back in forward gear once more. They have been over the past three trading days inspite of the severe calamities and geo-political tensions that came their way not even a full three months into ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Perhaps 'twas the Japanese people's seeming stoicism in the face of what could be as close to an apocalypse as we could get that although concerned, there hasn't been any observable and widespread panic in the financial markets. Sure the Nikkei-225 ...