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It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
Australian stocks have opened firmer amid broad-based gains as local market players took their cues from a positive night on Wall Street. At 1030 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 20.7 points, or 0.48 per cent, at 4,369.7 points, while the ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... three-digits and "the Standard & Poor's 500 Index posted its biggest decline in a month" and most euro equities fell last night. Fed hopes faded. Could it be? Wall Street's paid notice to what I wrote yesterday? Yeah right! I can only wish. "I don't ...

Shorten reins in employer involvement in default super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... considering the recommendations, because the government has already made up its mind," Cormann said. FSC chief John Brogden last night said the commission was standing by the view that all MySuper products should be eligible for all awards. "Full and ...

Super governance Bill passes amid cries of favouritism

BEN COLLINS, MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... trustees inappropriately favours industry super funds. This comes on the back of legislation passing through Parliament last night, which gives the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) the same powers over superannuation funds that it has ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
Don't bother reading today about what Wall Street did last night - it didn't. 'Twas another DD (dull day) folks. Nothing new -- just that what's now become a too familiar refrain of investors fearing slowing global growth counterbalanced by hope that ...

Dull night on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
The suspense is killing, the wait... boring. Fresh data were released out of America and Europe while we slept, but the results more or less did nothing to alter what financial markets already know or speculate about. There was nothing that surprised ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
It's still many, many sleeps before Christmas yet last night seems to be "the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." Financial markets generally marked time while we slept, unstirred by fresh ...

Generations split on what causes sleepless nights

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... Regardless of age, she said all generations agreed that a lack of savings in the bank is the biggest factor keeping them awake at night. The two biggest financial nightmares for Gen Ys were not having enough money to support their family (40%) and not ...