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Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... was about taking the strongest players in an uncertain sector. For JP Morgan to go under, really, the entire US financial system is gone and if that happens, I'm going to have much bigger problems." Conversely, he would also back companies which investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... was one point higher at 4,820 points. In economic news on Monday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (financial system) Malcolm Edey will address Cards and Payments Australasia 2010 Conference. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases lending ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... nerves, Greek PM Papandreou met with US Pres Obama to warn him that Greece's crisis could posed a risk to America's financial system. Hmmm...think he's doing an AIG. Remember AIG's Powerpoint presentation at the height of the GFC? At any rate, Papandreou ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... when governments and central banks took aggressive action to ease the credit squeeze that is choking the global financial system. Positive signs that these are working maybe few and far between up to now, but certainly they are working silently in the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... news to support it, but we're running into some pretty big headwinds from the US and over uncertainty over the financial system in Europe," he said. "We're starting to see the flow-through effect of better metal prices and a more stable commodity outlook ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... recession is a recession is a recession. The same dynamics should apply. A steep yield curve leads to repair of the financial system as banks borrow cheap money from the Fed and invest them in higher yielding long-term Treasuries. This helps re-liquify ...

Fixing an industry on steroids

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... prudent subsidise the imprudent?" he asked. Finally, Mayo said it's the lack of capitalism that's crippled the financial system. "Capitalism did not cause the problems as opposed to lack of capitalism, whether with regard to having good information to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... Commission, at the first meeting of the bipartisan, 10-member panel, which is investigating the near collapse of the financial system in the autumn of 2008. While the executives agreed that banks' actions contributed to the crisis that paralysed the ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... in ballooning fiscal deficits by withdrawing the myriads of monetary and fiscal stimulus that has flooded the financial system through the course of 2009. Be careful what you wish for. Yes, be very careful. For a premature and a hasty removal of the ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... ensure that the failure of one large bank or financial institution won't spread like a virus through the entire financial system." In a press statement, SEC chairman Mary Schapiro said she applauded the House for taking the step to boost investor protections ...