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Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... QE3 is intended to fix -- that's of course if you ignore good ol' in your face Charlie. Yes folks, he was at it again last night. Non-voting FOMC member and Philly Fed president Charles Plosser told the Wall Street Journal about his doubts over the Fed's ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... exact same belt-tightening measures that Spaniards in Madrid and the Greeks in Athens have protested against again only last night. We only have to look at the performance of Spain's financial markets to know that this is not good news for Prime Minister ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... downgraded the ratings of Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and 13 other US banks. That was bad news day. As it was again last night. Though the financial press nominated differing poisons for last night's fall on Wall Street, they were one in telling us ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... cyberspace for some big event that's bound to produce results nearer term. So Spain here we come (again). News out Friday night (Aussie time) told of markets expecting the Spanish government to formally request for a bailout this week. Here's 'The Guardian' ...

BlackRock earns double honours at hedge fund awards

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... Australian Equity Market Neutral Fund received double honours at the annual Cure Our Kids Australian Hedge Fund Awards last night, winning awards for Australian hedge fund of the year, and best market neutral fund. The wholesale fund delivered 22.49% ...

Deutsche Bank restructures

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... effectively curtailing earlier speculation it was up for sale. The new division's executive committee was announced last night local time and will be chaired by Michele Faissola who is to head the unit together with chief operating officer Jon Eilbeck. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... have expected our market to show a bit more finesse than what it has so far," Mr Heffernan said. Wall Street closed Friday night's (AEST) offshore session higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P500 both gained 0.4 per cent, while the NASDAQ ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... leads from Wall Street and gains for the resources sector. "When you look at overseas leads, the Dow had an extremely good night and in terms of today, across the board we're going to have a much better day," he said. US stocks soared after the Federal ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... their power to keep the single currency area single. Next stop towards strengthening that singleness: Banking Union. Last night, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso outlined a plan for the ECB to become the Eurozone's banking supervisor ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... debt. US 10-year bond yields dropped from 2.56% on the day of the announcement to 1.88% by the end of 2011 and 1.70% last night. And as Steve Goldstein - Washington Bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal - wrote: "The CBO... says the budget deficit ...