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Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... doesn't see the need to print more US dollars. This is not hard to imagine, especially given last night's reports on company profits and China. According to Bloomberg, "Going into this earnings season, more than 70 percent of S&P 500 companies have topped ...

Legg Mason Permal Global Absolute Trust earns high rating

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... promise. "Japan is a key active equity market for us right now. We don't believe the market has rewarded the strong company profits, so about 7 per cent of the fund is invested in this market to capture the expected resurgence," he said. The fund began ...

Trustees warned as APRA toughens guidances

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... plays into the hands of retail funds often criticised for their transfer pricing fee structures to build holding company profits and will put pressure on cost recovery oriented not-for-profit funds to follow suit and continue lifting their ongoing fees. ...

Turning Bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... demand and delay (stop?) investment in equipment, in buildings and structures and in staff. Income and wages fall, company profits fall, equity market falls. And then that eagerly awaited double dip. If this fear becomes entrenched at this point in time ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... their cycle wrong. Employment brings up the tail end of the economic loop...it does not drive it. Virginia, it is company profits that is the driver. That is why, you and I and our uncles and his dog, are now closely watching the earnings reporting season ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... at a one-year high on Thursday, as strong earnings from US investment bank JP Morgan encouraged investors that company profits are likely to improve. But the market fell back from earlier highs as some investors judged it a good price to sell stocks ...

Rejoice for rates have risen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
... about. We can't have our cake and eat it too! We can't demand strong growth to provide employment and underpin company profits and low interest rates and low inflation all at once. The RBA's tact (or is it market expectations?) of gently raising interest ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... - painfully slow, according to some - they may be, but the green shoots keep on turning greener by the day. US company profits beat expectations and the pace of decline in the economy has declined. European businesses and consumers have turned more optimistic. ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... Street's loss of 4 per cent loss (more in Europe) are news of more Australian businesses seeing staff out the door, company profits declining - down 6.5 per cent in the December quarter, Moody's downgrading three - ANZ, CBA Westpac -- of Australia's ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... Like its counterparts, the global financial crisis and the recession are putting downward pressure on Eurozone company profits as businesses faced falling demand for their products and services as global demand dries up and weak consumer spending weakens ...