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CFD health check prompts more oversight

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... stuff. We are a global provider of products, most of the practices we already do are in that paper," he said. "There's nothing in [the research] that I'm overly concerned with. The paper hasn't come as a surprise, we spoke to ASIC about our own concerns." ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... attitude." Maya Angelou Asia is up, Europe is up, Wall Street is up... for three days straight. But what has changed? Nothing really except for investors and speculators getting bored with waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the double-dip and that ...

Bad news bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... anything could go wrong... Finally, US jobless benefit claims increased by 13,000 last week when a fall was expected. Nothing should be made out of this week-by-week volatility in the jobless claims figures - they've been practically going nowhere (flat) ...

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... tailspin (if poor) or a rebound by providing enough optimism that the crisis is petering out (if good). Meanwhile... there's nothing wrong with sitting on the sidelines.

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... provided this spark. "My best guess is we will have a continued recovery, but it won't feel terrific." And there was really nothing significantly new in the statistics, news and reports that came out overnight. Wall Street just decided to focus on the ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... love-in with Big Ben Bernanke appears to be indicating -- loved one day, ignored the next. Yes Virginia, although there's nothing new between his comments he made at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars the other day -- " My best guess ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... always been 'the' major economic indicator for America - it is not called "the mother of all economic statistics" for nothing. But this month's payrolls report for May is a very special one because of its magnitude and the guesses so wide you could fit ...

Silver lining

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... there are just way too many problems for the financial markets happening all at the same time to deal with that there is nothing they could do but rollover and die. Europe, Europe and Europe. The one that started it all remains with us to this day. Speculations ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... market volatility on its economic fortune. And when in doubt, what's a central bank to do? The RBA's best bet is to do nothing...nada...zilch until the dust settles. It's much safer this way. It can't lower interest rates this early just because of the ...

Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... story saying that China's State administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) is reviewing its holdings of Eurozone bonds. Nothing wrong with that! Any astute investor -- given the uncertainty in Europe -- would be doing the same thing if they want to preserve ...