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Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... access to a database! As for wages, the same I refuse to name strategist was quoted as saying that it was "a material surprise, and raises the uncomfortable prospect that wage pressures may have troughed." "Material surprise" my backside. Doesn't he ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... session. IG Markets analyst Cameron Peacock said that the stronger than expected opening to the local market was a welcome surprise, and that a variety of sectors were trading strongly. "It's a little bit stronger than what we expected," Mr Peacock said. ...

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 ...

Generations split on what causes sleepless nights

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
Research from superannuation fund Sunsuper revealed that the financial nightmares experienced by different generations reflect where they are at within their respective life stages. But what unites the generations, said Sunsuper's general manager, customer ...

Maybe next month

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... tepid at best, deteriorating at worst, and not prepared to exit completely lest we miss out if the CBs spring a kinder surprise. Greed and fear at their best! Speaking of surprises, expect none from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) after its Board ...

Retiree living costs match CPI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... living adjustment for pensions compared to other welfare benefits which are normally linked to CPI or average wages. The surprise in the latest results is that the PBLI is rising on par with regular CPI despite retirees and pensioners having a different ...

Going for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... North Korea and Iran. They seem like teenie-weenie small beers now, don't they? But at least, they had the element of surprise in them. They caught investors off guard. But this ones -- the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and recession and potential dismemberment ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket had a surprise positive opening after investors took advantage of buying opportunities in the wake of Monday's losses. At 1020 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 9.6 points, or 0.23 per cent, at 4,138.5 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... the Australian economy but I think they could be slightly disappointed," he told AAP. "I think they could get an upbeat surprise here as we have been used to recently... hopefully we get some good job numbers again and a bit of short covering coming ...