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Can this latest kick of the can can?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
Spectacularly fantabolous! This was the financial markets' reaction to Europe's kinder surprise on the last day of the last trading week of the last month of the second quarter. Wall Street gained big time - the Dow ended 2.2% up, the S&P 500 closed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... cent. LONDON - European stock markets surged and the euro jumped against the US dollar after a key EU summit delivered surprise emergency measures to fight the eurozone debt crisis. In Frankfurt the DAX 30 rose 4.33 percent to 6,416.28 points and Paris' ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... Bloomberg, please stop! For this is just the usual case of investors (nay, speculators) not wanting to get whipsawed by a surprise QE - or whatever counter measure - announcement following a big drop in equity prices. Certainly, S&P/Case Shiller composite ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... over vodkas this time instead of tequilas. And who could forget another of last week's dashed expectations. No kinder surprise from the Fed, just the obligatory extension of the twist. Yes, Big Ben was obliged to maintain the status quo else there'll ...

Premium China expands distribution team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... overnight," Wu said. "People who are in what they thought were low risk income funds or yield funds will have a very nasty surprise. Over the last five years yield funds have done particularly well and outperformed equities - that's on the back of the ...

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... last night, after being up the previous day and down the day before. This sawtooth trading pattern hardly comes as a surprise given the great uncertainty over the outcome of the Greek elections. Thankfully - rather, hopefully - we'll all be put out of ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... markets began searching for the meat in the 'no more pain in Spain' headlines and found that there's none as of yet. Surprise, surprise. Sowee, but I've already lost track of how many times European authorities have done this over the past three years ...

Eurozone to craft a reforms roadmap

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
The heads of four key European institutions are hammering out a 'masterplan' to lead the eurozone out of its crisis, according to recent reports. European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, European Union president Herman Van Rompuy, EU Commission head ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... sense is that we still won't see a replay of the GFC crisis. Why so? Because the GFC crisis took everyone and his dog by surprise - no one saw it coming (although a few will tell you they did - hooray for them). Most are expecting this one, perhaps since ...

Investors set to remain cautious: Franklin Templeton

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... management," said Jim McKay, director of advisory services for Franklin Templeton Investments in Australia. "While it is no surprise that many investors are sitting on the sidelines when it comes to making changes to their investment portfolios, there ...