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Better second half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
Has Wall Street suddenly gone loco - surging at a time like this? Perhaps it's because of valuation. Stock prices have fallen so low that it's making investors' mouths water. Seems like it, the S&P 500 is currently trading at a price-earnings ratio ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
The Australian share market is expected to open around one per cent lower today after US stocks fell due to fresh concerns about the financial stability of the eurozone. At 0629 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was down 41 points ...

Asian private wealth tops Europe

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
Asia's community of high net wealth individuals (HNWI) overtook Europe for the first time in 2010 as the world's richest look set to pour more money back into equities and commodities 2012. Asia-Pacific posted the strongest rate of HNWI population growth ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
Fresh events and reports released overnight really did not add to what we already know. We already know that Greece will be bailed out for a default because its exit from the Eurozone would trigger a game of "who's next?" Small and insignificant Greece ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
Australian stocks were performing strongly at noon, following positive moves in Greece overnight towards accessing more bailout money. At 1225 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 37.3 points, or 0.83 per cent, at 4,545.5 points, while the broader ...

All clear for a bail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
All seems to be clear on the western front today. The sun is shining, the sky is blue (even here in Melbourne) and everything looks hunky-dory, thanks very much. There was a kind of hush all over the world last night - hush over the tragedy that is ...

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
It's got the euro in its hands. It's got the whole world in its hands. There's some semblance of relative calm on financial markets overnight. Wall Street reversed early losses and closed higher. European stocks still ended in the red but on lower negatives ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
The Australian stock market has received a mostly positive lead from offshore trading, after Wall Street closed higher and gold, silver and oil prices settled firmer. But copper and prices finished lower. At 0800 AEST, the September share price index ...

VIX says no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
We were just full of it yesterday, weren't we? Yes Virginia, we were filled with the words fear, anxiety, panic, doom and all else in between that spells M-E-L-T-D-O-W-N. We were so full of it that at one point, I thought it was already October - you ...

Super funds bidding to stem insurance shortfall

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
Group insurance companies are experiencing a shift in the focus of super fund clients with an increasing impetus on innovation, simplicity and slick claims processes. As funds look to play their part in tackling Australia's under-insurance problem ...