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That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... for those who were in it. Sure it had come down since then but - yes, another but -- the index is still up 5.3% as at last night's close. That's not a performance anyone would expect faced with the prospect of "a downturn so severe it would eclipse the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... points, on volume of 25,994 contracts. The market opened about 1.3 per cent lower, as investors took their cues from a weak night on Wall Street and ongoing troubles in Europe, and moved further into the red during morning trade. The worst-performing ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... chicken Greece and its paymasters (Germany, in particular) are playing. Cue in Joe South: "Oh the games people play now Every night and every day now Never meaning what they say now Never saying what they mean." -- Games People Play Beggars can't be ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
Australian stocks have opened lower, with local market players taking their cues from a poor night on Wall Street as the political gridlock in Greece dominated trading. At 1028 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 38 points, or 0.88 ...

Deja vu of deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
My, my, hey, hey, rock n' roll is here to stay - or in our case Europe's sovereign debt, fiscal deficit, financial, banking, economic, political and social crisis. You name the crisis. One or more members of the Eurozone's got one, or more, or all of ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
There were really no fresh talking points I could find on cyberspace last night, just a flipping of the flop in sentiment seen over the past few days. For last night we got news that US unemployment claims came in a thousand heads better than expected. ...

MIT Budget inconsistencies spark concern

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... initiative, which is designed to attract foreign investors to Australian managed investment products and services. Tuesday night's budget indicated an increase in the MIT withholding tax rate effective July 1 2012. The announcement sparked immediate ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... affected by falls on Wall Street and uncertainty in Europe as well as the absence of an expected cut in company tax in Tuesday night's federal budget. "Certainly no doubt the weakness in Wall Street overnight following further concerns on what's happening ...

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
Australia's $376 billion government budget announced last night included a forecast $1.5 billion surplus in 2012-13 that will increase steadily to $7.5 billion over the next four years. This turnaround in Australia's fiscal position is remarkable given ...