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Up, Down, Flat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... instead of lowered its growth projection. This is perhaps why after its two-day meeting, the US Federal Reserve opted to do nothing - it left policy unchanged at 0 - 0.25 per cent and did not change to its debt buyback schedule. It also cannot make up ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... random drop of a numbered ball. Bet you can tell I did not pick the winning numbers? For as I've pointed out yesterday, nothing much has changed before and after the WB cried boo! The global economy is healing, perhaps too slow for some, but healing. ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... The IMF scared the s&#t out of the G20 back then. Can't blame the WB for trying the same tactic! The bottomline is that nothing has changed. Economies continue to stabilise and deteriorate less. Speculators wanted to take some profits...they found an ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... stock markets around the world took a step back last week and posted their first week-on-week fall in a month. And no, nothing really changed in terms of economic stats and survey data. For what it's worth, news on the economy were on balance positive ...

QIC adopts Sophis Value software

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... first client in Australia. Troy Rieck, managing director QIC Capital Markets said in the current economic environment nothing was more important than risk management. "For QIC, the implementation of Sophis Value will enhance the breadth and efficiency ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... no plans to ease policy - increase asset purchases and/or cut rates - any time soon. As for the BoE, there was really nothing it could do but keep interest rates at near zero - 0.5 per cent -- last week. What is encouraging is that the British central ...

Unlisted valuations on track: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... infrastructure fund manager and four which managed property. Despite these lapses, Trafford-Walker believes that there was nothing significantly wrong with the fund managers' results in the survey. "Our goal was to survey all the managers that our clients ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... Australia (RBA) is deliberating what to do with interest rates. Given these positive indications, chances are it would do nothing. What about tomorrow's National Accounts report expected to confirm Australia's fall into technical recession? There will ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... many risks heading into the weekend," Mr Manley told AAP. "Across the board, everything seems to be doing well. There's nothing dragging it down. "There are some slight gains, but nothing too dramatic." The major banks all were up in morning trade. Commonwealth ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... of things? Kimmy always shoots his pop gun when he wants attention from the international community - read, more aid. Nothing really concrete results from this and so it was ignored, especially with big brother China wagging a no-no finger on its little ...