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Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... people come to Australia is to see koalas and kangaroos... no matter why they come, when they get here they discover everything else that is here." Australia's financial industry may, according to former financial services minister Chris Bowen, directly ...

Planners select HUB24

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... director of HUB24 and chief executive officer of HUB24's parent, Investorfirst. "Any advisers who use HUB24 can access everything through their iPhone, all account details, clients, addresses, correspondence everything. Importantly, there is a client ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... the third quarter would be paid back in full - plus interest - this quarter. Mr. and Mrs. Tanaka have already bought everything all the tobaccos and cars they need to last them another three months, maybe more. Danger in America, Will Robinson. Latest ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... "It's always darkest before dawn." This axiom came to mind as I watched Wall Street recouped its previous day's losses. Everything that could go wrong appeared to have gone wrong yesterday. There was shelling in the Korea's. Ireland's acceptance of the ...

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Pick your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past ...

Awakening from summer slumber

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
Everything's turning up daisies one more time. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Hate to say this but... didn't I tell you it would? That the Irish problem, like Greece's and Dubai's, would go away - or at least relegated till the next European debt scare when financial ...

ASIC cracks down on CFD trading

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... statements are another barrier for investors in understanding key information. "It is crucial this information has everything retail investors need to make an informed decision, including spelling out the very significant risks of CFD investment," he ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... the ball flew... along with the putter. This is perhaps what the financial markets are expecting of the Fed. To throw everything they've got - the putter along with the ball. Great expectations beget great disappointment. This is why I reckon that it ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... fall since early August. This wasn't supposed to happen. QE2 is coming, it's almost a done deal, it would make right everything that's wrong. Or so the financial markets thought! A barrage of bad news drowned market euphoria over QE2. There was bad news ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... spending more, banks will start lending more, businesses will start investing more - in shops, equipment and labour - everything wrong would be righted again! Oh yes, yes, yo! That is if you and I and our third grade child believe that other leaders ...