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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... to 988.44. The Nikkei's relative strength index (RSI) has fallen as low as 60 after rising to a high of 76 last week. Anything from 70 and above is considered overbought. HONG KONG - Profit-taking and fresh doubts over the eurozone bailout for debt-ridden ...

Kill chicken, scare monkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... have pleaded not guilty. Maybe they weren't. Stern Hu and Co knows that the entire international community cannot do anything in retaliation to China. Australia cannot do anything. All that Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith could say in response ...

Hands off SMSFs, warns assoc

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... significant problems." Concerning the AIA is that investors set up SMSFs because they want more control over their super and anything that undermines that contravenes this objective. "Eighty six per cent of member trustees report that having greater ...

Kiwis confused on retirement investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... representing more than one million people. The survey found of that one million people, 56 per cent said they did not know anything about the scheme. In addition, respondents said the KiwiSaver had a government guarantee, when in fact it does not. Only ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... 'we do have the greatest economic machine that man has ever created' only highlights the market's pre-occupation with anything and everything scary. Incidentally, Bloomberg quoted data compiled by Yale University Professor Robert Shiller again last night ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... system standby. You can reason one way or the other until you're blue in the face but the fact remains that there wasn't anything new in last night's data releases. It's the same old, same old mix of negatives and positives. Besides, no one can make ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... float bonds for their construction projects. The housing sector remains weak - and perhaps weakening. Big Ben did not say anything new. The job stimulus should be taken as negative for it adds to America's ballooning deficit. But Wall Street wanted an ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... to grief because whatever growth there will be in the US would be weak given the poor state of the labour market. Has anything changed significantly this week from the last one? Yet Wall Street was on the up and up over the past three trading days. It ...

Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... estimate for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2010. Note the word after the numbers start with a 'B" and not a "TR". Is there anything higher than a AAA?

HLB Mann Judd search for Henry clues

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... Henry Review, a leading tax expert takes a stab at what the new regime could be. Although the Treasurer is not giving anything away regarding the outcome of the Henry Review, Jolyon Dare, tax director at HLB Mann Judd in Sydney, reckons the Henry Tax ...