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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
Australian stocks were down slightly at noon, as the big miners fell, and the market consolidated gains that took it to a one month high. At 1200 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 12.5 points, or 0.27 per cent, at 4546 points ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... magazine doesn't think so. In a 27 May article, it printed that "Prices would have to fall a long way to push borrowers "under water", owing more than the value of their house. The average mortgage is for less than 50% of the value of a home..." And ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... analyst Juliette Saly said the flat performance on Wednesday followed "a great run" on Tuesday. "I think we'll be treading water for the remainder of the week ahead of key Chinese data and US retail sales, which are the focus of the global market," Ms ...

The future according to Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... to our eyeballs to people overseas", Australia is close to defaulting on its national debt. Where is he now? He's doing water and regional development where he could do no further damage to Australia's international credit standing. But back to Big Ben ...

African dev't needs private equity: Mobius

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... natural resources. Mobius said the investment outlook for Africa is positive as its agricultural products and abundance of water will decide the rise and fall of nations in the future. The problem is the region's capital markets are still immature. "There ...

RIP May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... America, so that's it for Wall Street. The S&P 500 is officially down 8.2 per cent in the month -- and is snorkelling below water level by 2.3 per cent since the start of 2010. Ahhh... but there may still be hope for those watching the month-by-month ...

Gunns freezes MIS offerings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... on key issues such as fee models, the financial position of the responsible entity, arrangements around access to land, water and other licenses and related party arrangements. Responsible entities of existing agribusiness schemes will be required to ...

Govt infrastructure fund falls well short

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... make annual contributions starting at $700 million from 2012-2013. The fund will help build roads, ports, electricity and water supply utilities in Australia's resource industry. Peter Meany, head of global infrastructure securities at Colonial First ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
If I didn't know better, I would think that the Australian Treasury Secretary's name is Henry Review instead of Dr. Ken Henry. Look around you...pick up a paper...click on a mouse, and you're sure to find Dr. Ken Henry Tax Review splattered across the ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
What's wrong with Wall Street this time? There must be something in the water when solid corporate earnings result still gets it down. According to Bloomberg, more than 80 per cent of companies in the S&P 500 that have already reported their first quarter ...