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No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
Seventy-one (71) Julia. Thirty-one (31) KRudd. Surprised? No. Embarrassingly entertaining? Very. But now that Team Labor has chosen, it's time to put the farce (whoops, Freudian slip), the past behind and get on with the business of governing. Yeah ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
The Australian dollar has moved slightly higher as markets continue to react positively to the Greek parliament's passage of fresh austerity measures. The Australian market looks set to open flat despite a positive lead from Wall Street after Greek ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
"Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones." - The Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster The optimism that warmed financial markets for the best part of the first six weeks of 2012 has been dented by the comeback of the European sovereign ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
There's a certain kind of hush all over the world overnight as financial markets turned their attention back to the Greeks and their seemingly never-ending negotiations with their benefactors - the IMF, the EU, the ECB... and private creditors. Ahhh ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... by 1.8%, ignoring reports that Greece and its creditors are still refusing to shake hands. It was the same story on the Street. The Dow rose by 1.2% -- perhaps not as spectacular as its European counterpart but this took the index up to its highest closing ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... "mother of all economic statistics, the US Non-farm Payrolls Report. There weren't a lot of shaking that went on in the Street while we slept - the Dow was down less than 0.1% and the S&P 500 up by just a tad over 0.1%. Flat, flat, flat. And on the subject ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... and they made it known in no uncertain terms - and so did the financial markets. No one really expects the Greeks on the street to vote for higher taxes, lower wages (for those who still have work) and reduced welfare payments, do they? Mr. Papandreou ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
The Australian dollar rose almost one US cent as traders position themselves in preparation for the weekend's crucial eurozone summit. Overnight, Greek members of parliament passed a deeply resented austerity bill that has led to violent protests on ...

Some hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
Germany ratifies rescue plan, now for the rescue. With 523 'jawohls' to 85 'neins' and three abstentions, Germany's Bundestag approved the 21 July plan to increase the lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to a,-440 billion ...

Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... decisions since last year (if not longer) -- they are what I call permanent dissenters. So what really happened on The Street last night? Nothing significant to change the course of history is what happened last night.