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ETCs open on ASX

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
ETF Securities' suite of exchange traded commodities (ETCs) including platinum, silver and palladium can now be traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The firm announced its ETC range in November last year, includes ETFS Physical Platinum ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
The Australian share market was over two per cent higher at noon, led by resources stocks, after metals prices rose overnight. The local market was closed on Monday for the Australia Day public holiday. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Roll out the printing presses. Cutting the Federal funds target rate below 1 per cent is certainly feasible. This was the statement delivered by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in his speech before the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce in ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
Dow Jones Indexes has launched the Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) ASEAN Index - the first of its kind that represents the performance of Shari'ah-compliant companies in six of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ...

First Quadrant taps global macro trends to gain 12pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
Fund manager First Quadrant returned 12 per cent in the three months to September by taking a contrarian view on how to exploit volatility in equities, debt and currency markets. The California-based manager, represented locally by Affiliated Managers ...

Yen caught in crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
Now it's the Japanese yen's turn. The current financial crisis that started in the US sub-prime sector and had been strangling the stock and money markets is now morphing into an exchange rate problem. Increased risk aversion and the unwinding of yen ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
The Australian share market had lost more than one per cent at noon, moving below the four-year lows reached on Friday amid worldwide recession fears. The bourse was being dragged down by financial stocks and hampered by weaker crude oil prices and ...

Period of cleansing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
Where's a poor investor going to look? On the right, there are hopeful signs that liquidity is starting to trickle. On the left, the number of countries falling into an economic recession is increasing. Over the past few days, equity market rallies ...

Three wise economists

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
Hopeful signs that the squeeze on the credit markets is beginning to loosen gave Wall Street another leg up overnight. The Dow closed 4.7 per cent higher, the S&P 500 ended 4.8 per cent up and the Nasdaq rose by 3.4 per cent at the finish. It was the ...

The good and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
The US Congress is still deliberating the administration's latest rescue package - the details and the cost. The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) acknowledges that despite the delay, the US Congress will ultimately pass the government's bailout ...