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More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... track to beat that other record - the US$1.4 trillion deficit posted in fiscal year 2009 ended September. But what's new? Nothing. Heck, even economists got it almost right this time. Consensus expectations were for a February deficit of US$222 bil. ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... were being extrapolated lower as all sorts of "experts" tried to rationalise their fears. But as it turned out, there was nothing to fear but fear itself. One year on and the S&P 500 is nearly 70 per cent higher, the Dow more than 60 per cent up and ...

SuperAlphaFund closes shop in Australia

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... SuperAlphaFund employs five people in Australia. Gaertner said his current focus is on the firm's operations in Australia, and nothing has been decided yet about his career moves following the wind up. Set up in Austria back in 1995, Superfund grew to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... all-time low, falling two cents to $2.92 after voicing their concerns over the national broadband network. "My view is that nothing will happen before the next (federal) election and it will be the next government's problem," Mr Hancock said.

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... would gain majority seats in Parliament. What does this mean? Oh...just a lot of discussions, debates and bickering and nothing gets done when it comes to vote. And that's as mixed as mixed can be. The beat goes on...la de da de da.

Trader's market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... elephant. Overall US durable goods orders rose by a higher-than-expected 3.0 per cent in January. So what's wrong with that? Nothing! Except for the media latching on to the 0.6 per cent decline in durable orders ex-transportation. And to sensationalise ...

Perpetual FUM up as flows steady

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... chief executive at Perpetual, said investors are still very cautious. "Investment funds flow is much improved but still nothing like the volume the funds management industry enjoyed up to 2007," he said. "Our track record of relative out-performance ...

Penny for Benny's thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... movements. Many are forced to however inane the explanation. The truth is this is another random walk by a drunken sailor. Nothing much really happened overnight. A 0.1 per cent dip on The Street? Big deal! The truth is financial markets are waiting ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
It makes a great deal of difference, doesn't it? It just depends where you look. Just a week ago, nothing - absolutely nothing - could seemingly ease market nerves about the fate of the global economy and the financial markets. There were renewed stirrings ...

ASIC power boost could trigger witch-hunts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... services industry has been brought into serious disrepute by the string of corporate collapses most of whom had absolutely nothing to do with the 'advice' industry under the FSRA. Increased powers of investigation may help stop these well published occurrences ...