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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... "There have just been a number of factors that are cascading in on themselves at the moment," Ms Spencer said. "There's nothing too concerning big picture-wise, but in the shorter term they are giving the market a reason to take a breather from its recent ...

More to emerging markets than Asia

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... performing well. One example is South Africa's largest grocer Shoprite, which has more than 60 million customers per month but nothing like the competition faced in more developed markets. "These companies can benefit from increasing consumption from ...

SG war far from over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... stalling with the AIST again maneuvered into coming out to defend the rise from another business lobby attack. "Employers had nothing to fear from compulsory super contributions moving to 12 per cent, while workers and the nation had everything to gain," ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... getting financial market sentiment down. And the bursts of nerve attacks along the way proved few, short and shallow. Nothing seemed able shake market confidence. Until Libya's 42-year ruling strongman -- Moammar Qaddafi - or is it Gaddafi? Kadhafi? ...

Grass greener for local bourse without SGX

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... control ultimately to the Singapore Government. They are paying a control premium and yesterday's announcement changes nothing as far as the financial offer and control by Singapore are concerned," he said. Swan argues that even the basic argument that ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... move upwards. No one can blame them for this. In the month of January alone, the S&P 500 closed 2.26 higher. Sounds like nothing to write home about, doesn't it? But if we get the same performance for the other 11 months of 2011, this would translate ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... Big Ben's testimony before the US House Budget Committee last night, the money tap will continue to flow. There's really nothing new in his testimony, just a rehash of his 26 January one. Yup, it's the same old, same old stuff that yes the economy is ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... that everybody and his dog are now tuning in into the "Fiscal Deficit & Sovereign Debt Watch" show. Of course, there's nothing closer to our Australian hearts than the Gillard and Swan tandem disaster levy just so the Budget balance turns positive in ...

China no slow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
"You're nothing without me A no one who'd go undefined You wouldn't exist You'd never be missed." US President Obama might have as well be singing these lyrics from the "City of Angels Musical" when, according to the Australian Financial Review, he ...

Investors miss wealth signposts

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... strategies. Wealth builder signals for planners and individuals included the ability to have the mortgage reduced, ideally to nothing, by retirement while super contributions should be made above the required well before actual retirement is on the horizon. ...