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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street closed mainly lower following data showing US consumer confidence fell in September. The looming deadline for raising the US debt ceiling also weighed on sentiment. At 0757 AEST on Wednesday ...

IFM look to Latin America in latest appointment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has appointed Nicolas Villen as an external senior adviser to its US$7.1 billion Global Infrastructure Fund. Villen has worked extensively in Spain, including 20 years at Spanish multinational Ferrovial, S.A. His appointment ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
"Every single day Every word you say... I'll be watching you." -Sting Wall Street down and...you guessed it, it's taper on day. And so, round and round we go, when it ends we do not know. But perhaps we do. There's now an emerging consensus that the ...

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... relatively stronger economies of Germany, France and the Netherlands but also in the problem countries of Italy (up 1.5 points), Spain (up 0.1 point) and Portugal (up 1.8 points). To top this all, sentiment climbed to a five-year high in Greece -- that ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
More often than not, it's good to know that one is in good company. I bet not a few of you gentle readers believed more the "Fed would unwind soon" headlines than this column's musing that, "that time is not yet". Yeah, the equity markets' performance ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
Here's a quiz for you gentle readers, when was the last time you felt the fear over the prospect for the eurozone? It seemed oh so long ago, doesn't it? It appears just a distant memory especially when you look at the current performance of the Europe ...

Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... corporate financing." Greece with its 27.2% unemployment rate and minus 0.2% inflation certainly needs a rate cut. So does Spain (26.3% jobless rate and 2.4% inflation) and Portugal (16.9% and 0.4%) and Italy (11.6% and 1.6%). If only the ECB's largesse ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
It's getting close. It's less than two weeks away. Then we're in May -- that month of the year when the old Wall Street adage tells investors everywhere to sell and go away. And right on cue, the financial news are getting gloomier. We've already touched ...

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... takes" Draghi's fighting alongside Uncle Ben. It's because of him that benchmark bond yields in the PIS - Portugal, Ireland, Spain - actually dropped over Q1. Despite the contagion scare, the problem had been localised in Italy and Greece (because Cyprus ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher amid views that investors over-reacted to Europe's debt problems with heavy sell-offs on Monday. Monday's falls in Australia were the heaviest of the year (above two per cent) but a relatively muted response ...