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No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... cut in pay for doctors who treat Medicare patients. And here's the last one. Investors who "bought when everybody was fearful" back in the middle of 2010 have at most - 'at most' because no one can time exact bottoms - a 33.6% gain to brag about by the ...

Super fund private equity inflows constant

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... pension fund investments, while local pension funds remain active. "Australia has remained constant although people are fearful that Australians super funds and the like are putting less towards private equity but the numbers have remained constant with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... to sell short-term debt at much lower interest rates compared with a month ago, a signal that markets are becoming less fearful about the government's ability to repay its debt. In its first sale of short-term bills, the European Financial Stability ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... most to lose in the event of a default by a European country, something investors around the world have been increasingly fearful of. Wednesday's coordinated action by the central banks of Europe, the US, Britain, Canada, Japan and Switzerland greatly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... composite rose 85.83 points, or 3.52 per cent, to 2,527.34. Banks had some of the biggest gains as investors became less fearful of an imminent freeze-up in Europe's financial system, and retailers also rose sharply. LONDON - European stocks and the ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... financial-company holdings." Now there's a man who practices what he preaches. "Sell when others are greedy, buy when they're fearful." He hasn't come to be known as one of the most successful investor in the world if he jumps at every headline that ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... Crisis - 48.20 2011: US Downgrade/European Debt Crisis/Double Dip Fears - 48.00 Now think back - think real hard - how fearful you were back during these days? I'll be scared too because during all these episodes when not only a handful was proclaiming ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... the US recession came in 2007-2009. And speaking of being contrarian, no one says it better than the sage of Omaha. " Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." The jump in the VIX "fear" index overnight to 35.4 certainly ...

DC theatrics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... other place to look but at the US bond market. Re this, Bloomberg tried to spin it to fit the thesis that investors are fearful. "... 10-year Treasury note yields increased two basis points to 2.98 percent... as a stalemate over the debt ceiling pushed ...

VIX says no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... seemed to have gone wrong. I was hoping to wake up this morning braced for another down day on The Street. After all, fearful thoughts of the US deteriorating, Europe imploding, China tightening - and Australian Prime Minister Gillard's approval rating ...