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Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... in April had a hand in this. But falling mortgage rates should aid in sustaining demand in the coming months. Yes, everything was going well until... The Financial Times published a story saying that China's State administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... fallen off a cliff' sent Wall Street down again last night. Why no one picked up on his follow-up statement that, 'Everything will be all right,' because 'we do have the greatest economic machine that man has ever created' only highlights the market's ...

Rise of mini-mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... rally, then you had positive global news but no rally. So you have frustrated advisers at the moment thinking, 'hang on, everything is good, why aren't the markets rallying?'", he said. In response, Instreet offers structured products, such as the Instreet ...

SuperChoice ups clearinghouse challenge

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... from what often happens in the past which is when the payroll officer might just transfer the money out and pray that everything reconciles properly, said Philip. In contrast, PayClear2 "validates" the information with the employer before it processes ...

Sec lending to split from custody

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... prompting instos to unbundle their custodial services from other components of the securities lending chain. "Historically, everything was bundled together - you'd have your custody, securities lending and cash reinvestment with one entity. "[But now] ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... what would keep the juices flowing into risk assets this year. But then of course, it won't be a challenging year if everything goes as planned. Just as Murphy's Law dictates, "if something can go wrong, it probably will."

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... payrolls report, "we must be over the rainbow!" (Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz). The sun shone, the sky blued and everything became beautiful when reports that the US unemployment rate dropped to 10.0 per cent in November - not the 'it would remain ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... current Treasury Secretary, some may think Washington does reward failure, but that should not be the case. I will do everything I can to stop your nomination and drag out the process as long as possible. We must put an end to your and the Fed's failures ...

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... country that brought us the tallest building in the world, palm island, indoor snow skiing, the largest hotels, biggest everything, etc. is now sinking under the weight of borrowed money. The playground of the rich and the famous risks becoming just ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... last night and a few commodities doing quite well," he said. "A lot of the commodity stocks were reasonably strong but everything seems to have run out of momentum in the last half an hour. "The liquidity of the market is not that great at the moment ...