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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... to 7660.19 points and in Paris the CAC 40 climbed 0.99 per cent to 3686.58 points. Markets shrugged off a defiant North Korea staging its most powerful nuclear test yet and warning of "stronger" action to follow if the ensuing wave of global condemnation ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... welcomed signs of progress in US fiscal cliff talks and upbeat data from Germany and Spain, while shrugging off news of North Korea's rocket launch. With investors becoming more confident the safe-haven yen came back under pressure ahead of a general ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... about, it was Dubai World and its debt blowout. Then it was the Arab Spring and Kaddafi in early 2011. There were also North Korea and Iran. They seem like teenie-weenie small beers now, don't they? But at least, they had the element of surprise in them. ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... Spring (and surging oil prices), the Japanese tsunami/nuclear reactor meltdown, the US losing its AAA credit rating, North Korea, Iran, etc. - at 1334.8 points, the S&P 500 index remains nearly double what it was three years ago. Is there a chance that ...

Australian instos exposed to AML risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Globalising investment and increasingly complex webs of counter-party relationships mean Australian institutional investors are more exposed to anti-money laundering risks than they realise. These risks don't just mean from organised crime, the usual ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... current one. We can only hope for the best outcome from the current uncertainties - Europe, China, US, Syria, Iran, North Korea -- that's dogging everyone everywhere but we should also be prepared for the worst. Short of the predicted end of the world ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... sovereign debt crisis. Check. Tepid growth in America. Check. Slowdown to a crash landing in China. Check. Middle East, North Korea, oil. Check. These challenges were all there - and then some - yet Wall Street produced its best first quarter performance ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... modestly growing US economy and the slowing one in China. Then there are geopolitical uncertainties emanating from North Korea's new leader, Iran's nuclear adventure, and Nigeria's oil workers' strike - and political ones from Presidential elections ...

Me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... developments are being overshadowed by unthankful happenings in Europe and Asia - the PIGS in Europe and the pig in North Korea. And of course, there's China's efforts to break inflations' back (which many read as a "substantial slowdown that would remove ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... had fallen 77 cents to $83.76. Fortescue Metals was down four cents at $6.36. Equity markets fell overnight after North Korea and South Korea exchanged artillery fire near their disputed sea border, killing at least two South Korean marines. Shares also ...