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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... "Overall, it's a relatively quiet day in trade," Mr Foulsham told AAP. "There will be a bit of selling this afternoon, but nothing too dramatic. "There's not really anything that's making the market move too rapidly, so I think investors will wait to ...

LGS trust deed to drive "fair value" payments

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... response to the fact that investment markets... back [a few months ago] were extremely erratic," said Lambert. "This is nothing more than a temporary measure to ensure that if the [investment] world was caving in, we'd have be able to have a breather ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... were for employment to drop by 25,000 during the month and the unemployment rate to increase to 5.9 per cent. Caught with nothing to pin their doomsday scenario this time, they are calling the National Bean Counter a fraud. The best that I've read so ...

De-stressing the stress test

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... heads down. The way. The triad moved the date of the announcement of 'do I have enough capital' exam from 4 May to 7 May. Nothing wrong with that. What is clever is that along the way, they have gradually leaked results of the test - removing the surprise ...

Govt drafts new credit regime

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... across Australia as a person who loses their licence or registration will be excluded Australia-wide. At present, there is nothing to prevent a person continuing to operate simply by moving to a different state or territory," he said. The ACL regime ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... crisis and focusing on their expanding deficit in their national budgets. Arguably, this is responsible government. But nothing could be more irresponsible than spooking consumers, investors and businesses than raising the prospect of higher taxes, reduce ...

Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... makes it highly vulnerable to disappointment. Wall Street's developing bubble has been pricked again last night. But no, nothing has changed from last week. Positive news has been flowing along with the bad. The bad news first. The US Conference Board's ...

Excess choice boosts advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... Australia, and speaker at the Securitor conference in Darwin, said giving too much choice to investors can drive them to do nothing about their investments. Picking the right option from among the array of what's on offer becomes simply too complicated ...

She'll be right mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... thought" and that he thinks the first quarter 2009 economy would "be bad, because if you look around the world there's nothing that tells you otherwise." Yet he also believes that the country "would see growth in the second part of the year." The seeds ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... of the world would fall by 3 per cent this year. Developed nations' economic growth to contract by 3 per cent...that's nothing! The OECD's crystal ball says that growth in the world's rich economies would plummet by 4.3 per cent this year. This is more ...