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Risky business

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Forget loss of appetite, investors seem to have become risk-phobic resulting in equities along with the Aussie dollar suffering another hammering. In a race to the bottom of the pool, the S&P/ASX200 plummeted 9.9 per cent from June's peak, the Nikkei ...

Battling the bears

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
Investors' appetite for risk has been spoiled by fears of a global credit crunch, however the share market yesterday saw savvy investors snapping up banking and construction sector bargains. US markets finished up essentially where they started after ...

The price of pain

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
Nothing like a good cash injection to stabilise ailing equity markets, or in the Bank of England's case, offering the patient a drip but at a price. Equity markets suffered another bumpy ride on Friday night with the Dow roller coasting again, dropping ...

Liquidity evaporates

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2007
The sub-prime mess has washed up on European shores, where losses swept through all 18 western European markets and caused a backwash that wiped out more than half of the U.S. markets' three-day recovery. France's biggest bank, BPN Paribas halted redemptions ...

The upside of carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Is the current sub-prime calamity really another savings and loan crisis in the making, or just market noise? Consensus is that the volatility is more rollercoaster than bear-trend, and as such markets are quite capable of recovering just a quickly. ...

Rate hike to launch dollar?

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
Higher inflation has proved too hot to handle for the Reserve Bank board who increased the cash rate by 25 basis points to 6.5 per cent - our highest cash rate since November 1996. Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens, highlighted that economic conditions ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
Market action continues to be dominated by the US sub-prime fallout, but has the market lost its Mojo or is this interest rate and currency market volatility just a rollercoaster ride? Equity markets ended largely unchanged from where they started last ...

Sub-prime contamination causes market carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... the generosity of its staff bonuses, is the third Australian fund to flag losses on the back of a US credit market dry-up. Mac shares were trading down 7.5 per cent at $76.29 by early afternoon, their biggest one-day fall in five years and slicing $1.7 ...

Water's potential to float

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
With Federal and State Governments drowning in debate over how best to manage water, Citi has published economic research on the use of market forces and price to allocate this scarce resource. Shane Lee, Citi economist, believes opportunities are being ...

Green light over red tape

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
The hints haven't exactly been subtle, but State Governments are finally moving to fast-track more than $40 billion in infrastructure projects. We've had serious customer complaints from our biggest Japanese commodities buyers including Nippon Steel ...