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Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... shortfall and more than the combined Eurozone's 3.5% deficit to GDP ratio. Yes folks, it's not only gonna be a worldwide recession, it'll be a depression. It is either that, or the speculators are back blowing bubbles in the US bond market. But, as in ...

Consortium buys Challenger Infrastructure Fund assets

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... be a valuable long-term, core infrastructure asset that performed well during the Global Financial Crisis and global recession," said Graham Matthews, chief investment officer, Access Capital Advisers. "It is precisely this type of stable infrastructure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... moved into focus as it struggles with a banking crisis while battling record unemployment, a huge public deficit and a recession, raising concerns of a financial collapse. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 rose 6.94 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 3488.28.

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... was because of Egan-Jones Ratings Co's downgrade, it was because of Bankia, it was because it was sinker deeper into recession. Yes folks, the same issues and rationales that financial markets ignored not even 24 hours before. Italy is about to blow. ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... ours and our economy dragged down into the vortex of the slowing economies of our neighbours. But just as the Great Recession of 2008 failed to take us down because of our strong fundamentals (and pro-active fiscal and monetary policies), the same still ...

Bulls run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... bulls - run. To be sure, to be sure... there was also factual negative Spanish news last night. It's now officially in recession with real GDP falling by 0.3% in the first quarter following a similar 0.3% contraction in the previous period. But we were ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... well above one per cent as negative news continued from Europe, with Greece's woes deepening and Spain falling into recession. Strong quarterly earnings from Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, were not enough to shatter the gloom on Wall Street ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... to create to find an additional 5 million jobs for the 7 million or so workers that lost theirs during the 2007-2009 recession. This means added government spending - welfare and social order - and lesser consumer spending and sales than would have been ...

Potential for surprise financial crisis high

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... two years. "The expansion of household balance sheets and the fact that we have some sectors of the economy skirting recession, and we've had the tailwinds of the commodities boom, you withdraw those from the economy and then we could have a banking ...

Sure 25 but maybe 50

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... old, same old. Data out of Europe only confirmed what we already knew and expected all along, Spain's now officially in recession. Same old, same old in America too. Corporate profits continue to grow with around 74% of companies in the S&P 500 that ...