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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... market on Friday fell for a fifth straight day, capping its worst week in 18 months. The Swiss central bank's shock move to stop capping its currency's value against the euro added to already low investor confidence. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Oil! Oil! Oil! It's on the slide again! Just when we thought, the price of that black gold has found its footing, fresh news of higher supply and inventories and predictions of lesser demand next year took the floor from under it. While I still maintain ...

Advisers debate insurance commissions ban

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... ongoing commissions "will deter those practices who are after continual payment of upfront commission, but not necessarily stop bad practice from some advisers."

SPAA "disappointed" by the FSI's SMSF borrowing recommendations

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... to be in the inquiry and were disappointed that they haven't come out with a compromise," he said. Rather than a complete stop to direct borrowing for LRBAs, Colley said SPAA would support a "mid-point," where banks and other financial institutions could ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Everything is political and especially so with the super-charged high stakes poker game on display in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) where the battle lines were quickly drawn between financial product providers versus consumers. And after listening ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fluctuated, not moving far from its previous records after the ECB stopped short of announcing new stimulus measures. At 0848 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract ...

From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... long, because you will see increased demand and supply respond." My thesis exactly when I typed, "Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price" in this space last week. But back to oil forecasting, errr... extrapolation. We've seen this before. ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The cartel that controls 40% of oil production - the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - met and concluded their 166th meeting in Vienna, Australia last night. The conclusion: "...in the interest of restoring market equilibrium, the ...

Further raise pension age, says Future Leaders winner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... viral (and international) to ask people what they really want from superannuation, and mocked up a MyGov portal to be a 'one-stop shop' to simplify and help superannuants grow their savings. Foo meanwhile evaluated the twin peak regulatory system of ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... 2012. The PBOC also cut the one-year deposit rate by 25 bps to 2.75% along with increasing its ceiling from 10 bps to 20 bps. Stop right there, before you conclude that this particular one punishes depositors, it does not, according to The Economist. ...