by Kris Sayce on January 28, 2010
Today your editor is scrambling to get the January issue of Australian Small-Cap Investigator out the door before the month draws to a close.
We’ve even put in a call to the Gregorian calendar to see if they can extend the month to 32 days so we can tie up the loose ends over the weekend. Turns out that’s not possible. We’ll just have to suffer through it and stick to our deadline!
So we’ll be shorter than normal today.
We’ve got a bunch of stuff we’d like to write on property today, but we couldn’t do it justice so we’ll leave that until tomorrow.
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by Kris Sayce on December 15, 2009
We’re still beavering away on the December issue of Australian Small Cap Investigator this morning. But we’ve just enough time to take a break and knock out today’s edition of Money Morning.
We were heartened by news yesterday that Standard & Poor’s (S&P) had given an AAA rating to $920 million worth of residential mortgage-backed securities issued by Westpac Banking Corporation [ASX: WBC].
According to S&P:
“The preliminary ratings reflect our opinion of the transaction’s credit support, collateral pool, servicer, and other features based on our current criteria and assumptions.”
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by Kris Sayce on December 14, 2009
Another quick Money Morning today as we concentrate on getting the December issue of Australian Small Cap Investigator out the door.
So rather than blathering on forever as I normally do, I’ll just make a few brief observations on the subject of superannuation this morning.
First up, we noticed the front page of today’s Australian Financial Review (AFR) with the headline:
“Super funds want risk targeted”
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by Shae Smith on November 30, 2009
Kris is putting the final touches to the November issue of Australian Small Cap Investigator, so I’m filling in today.
But so you don’t get too many withdrawal symptons, I’ve got a subject you’ll be familiar with…
Property!
You and me, we’re constantly bombarded by the media about the housing shortage. If that message isn’t in your morning paper, chances are you have a flyer in your letter box from a real estate agent, telling you, that there is a shortage of homes in your area. Followed by the question, “Would you like our company to come and value your home?”
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by Kris Sayce on November 27, 2009
What a night on the markets. The London Stock Exchange goes “down” for three hours due to a technical glitch, and once trading resumed it finished the day “down” more than 3%.
Ouch!
On top of that Dubai kindly let everyone know that it’s in a spot of bother. You can imagine the conversation:
“Er, you know all that cash we borrowed to build those fancy pants buildings, well, there’s a glitch, ha, ha, ha. Any chance of extending the repayment deadline? We’re still good for it Guv, honest!”
And the Aussie market is taking a pasting this morning too. All I can say is I’m glad we recently recommended to Australian Small Cap Investigator and Australian Wealth Gameplan subscribers that they start using trailing stop orders.
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