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China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... anyone can break the Fed". For those who've forgotten. This was the same tactic employed by the Fed in late February/early March when the first whisper of QE unwinding was whispered. One after another, the Fed presidents came out singing one tune - at ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... intra-day high of 17.74 is lower than the plus 20 posted when Greece was in the midst of negotiating its bailout in early March. Having said that Friday night's US non-farm payrolls report for March would set the near-term direction for equity markets. ...

MLC: FOFA support hub sees strong response

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
... detailing how reforms may impact their business, with a 45% rise in traffic since its launch. Since its pilot launch in early March, the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms support centre has received a 45% climb in advisers using tools available ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... the eurozone such as Sony. The Nikkei lost 226.75 points, or 2.17 per cent, to 10,235.76, its lowest finish since early March. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares tumbled as fears about the eurozone debt crisis weighed on sentiment, while Shanghai hit a one-year ...

Make a pledge to grow your super

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... add more to their accounts. Wayne Sullivan, executive manager of marketing at HOSTPLUS, said the campaign started in early March following the mail out of the fund's member magazine, More. It is accompanied by an online campaign, with a section on the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... and manufacturing industries and better consumer sentiment. With stocks up more than 50 per cent since bottoming in early March, analysts say breaks in the rally are healthy. Meanwhile, a private sector group's forecast of economic activity on Monday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... rally blew into August on the type of news that might have seemed unthinkable when stocks cratered to 12-year lows in early March. A report predicted US manufacturing activity will grow next month, the government said construction spending rose in June ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... significant enough to place a big question mark over the sustainability of the equity market rally that started in early March 2009. Will the unfolding events ultimately prove that what we witnessed over the past three months is just the bouncing of ...

Of bulls, bears and flatliners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... China and North Korea's missile launches complete the bear's recipe for - at the very least - a revisit to the lows of early March 2009. For the flatliners. A second half recovery is already in the price. Apart from the day-to-day gyrations, Wall Street ...

Up, Down, Flat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... US time -- over the past four days, proving optimism that we have already left behind the low of the lows back in early March 2009. The same message could be inferred from the even broader NYSE Composite Index - comprised of 3,500 stocks - which echoed ...