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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... substantive lead from the US or in commodities to a great extent last night. "BHP is only down a bit, and Rio is up, so nothing decisive on the resources front." The major miners were mixed, with Rio Tinto up $1.06 at $56.87 while rival BHP Billiton ...

When it's too late

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Move on people...nothing to see here. Move on. Aussie investors relying on overnight movements on Wall Street to show them what today's trading activity has in store for them in their own market - up, down or upside down - would have to (gulp!) rely ...

Pension fund suffers million-dollar meltdown

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... restoration procedures. GSIS dismissed this suggestion and claimed Questronix should know a disaster recovery site would do nothing but copy the same corrupted data. Estrella Elamparo, the pension fund's chief legal counsel, said the imputation made ...

Planners prepare for retirement shock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... planning firms to provide lifestyle coaching or counseling for the last seven years and they say it's a great idea but nothing's done about it," he said. But there's now mounting evidence that baby boomers, also called the 'pig in the python' generation ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... could be forgiven for thinking that like its neighbour across the Tasman, economic conditions are not that bad. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Australian domestic demand - indicated by recent strong retail sales and housing finance ...

Positive surprise beats Meredith's surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... continued to travel night while we were sleeping. The S&P 500 closed 0.5 per cent higher and the Dow was up 0.3 per cent. Nothing to write home about but certainly worth an email. Yes, worth an email because the previous day's strong rally - given the ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way." The ongoing battle between the current ...

A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... And so it should there was really not much news out for it to react to one or another. The G8 meeting in Italy produced nothing new. Their communique announced more of the same. And this is that, 'significant risks remain to economic and financial stability.' ...

Focus on quality: T. Rowe Price

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... it sectorially, is that there's this real narrowing of the returns [of defensive and cyclical sector stocks]. There's nothing economic about it. It's simply the rotation out of what are the "quality" sectors, especially consumer staples and health care ...

AFA renews call to restrict 'financial adviser' term

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... a financial adviser in order to achieve their financial goals and objectives. The current open season on advisers does nothing to encourage consumers to get that help." This week, financial advisers were on the news pages of mainstream press following ...