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Going for gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
We're in trouble now... big trouble. That's the ugly picture painted by the latest US non-farm payrolls report and Wall Street's reaction to it. The S&P 500 fell by 0.94%, the Dow by 0.96% and the Nasdaq by 1.30% the day the US Labor Department released ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... that financial markets have been doing - waiting for the result of the French and Greek elections, waiting for Greece's election mark 2, waiting on the G-20 summit, waiting on the Fed's monetary policy decision, waiting on the EU Summit - and reacting ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
A day late and a penny short. Had the stumble in equity and commodity markets and the grim indicators released overnight happened while the Federal Open Market Committee was still in session, Big Ben would have announced something beyond extending the ...

Coalition releases super manifesto

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... confidence in superannuation and the list looks very much like a superannuation policy manifesto for the 2013 federal election. In a statement, Senator Cormann said a future the Coalition government will introduce a national superannuation clearing house ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... markets mostly fell as fears about Spain's surging borrowing costs replaced the previous day's optimism over Greece's election, while G20 leaders struggled to soothe dealers' nerves. Tokyo tumbled 0.75 per cent, or 65.15 points, to 8,655.87 and Shanghai ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
The Australian share market was lower at noon as investors looked beyond the positive election result in Greece to an upcoming meeting of the US central bank. It is hoped that the US Federal Reserve at a meeting on Wednesday will undertake new stimulus ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... market looks set to open lower after a mixed performance on Wall Street as investors digest the results of the Greek election and focus turns to Spain's record borrowing costs. At 0755 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... share price index futures contract was 65 points at 4,118 with 19,748 contracts traded. IG Markets Stan Shamu said the election of Greece's pro-bailout party had resulted in risk assets opening well on the domestic market. "Obviously the Greek elections ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street's positive lead and after indications Greek will get a pro-austerity, pro-euro government. At 0745 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was up 25 points at 4,078. ...