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Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... Will Robinson!" Danger! Danger! Pick a stock market, any stock market, chances are it is now in correction territory - Dow, Stoxx 600, FTSE-100, All Ords, Strait Times, Jakarta Composite, Taiex, KLCI, PSEi - or in a bear market -- Hang Seng - or highly ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... zinc, tin, wheat, corn, cotton and cattle, to name a few - scrambling on the up and up. China happy, Europe happy - the Euro Stoxx 50 closed a little it over 1% up - happier still on reports that Greece is nearing a deal on receiving a fresh a,-86B rescue ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... closed down by an eye-watering 0.4%; the All Ords by 1.2%; and in Europe (the epicentre of the Greek tragi-comedy), the Stoxx 600 "plunged" by 1.2% and the FTSE-100 was off 0.8%; the Nikkei-225 finished off by 2.1% - and bond yields dropped, marginally ...

Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... come! And yet, the "fear gauge" - the VIX index - dropped 3.8% to 14.81 overnight. And yet, European stocks rebounded - the Stoxx 600 index increased by 0.65% -- after Friday (minus 0.9%) and Monday's (minus 1.6%) big falls. It created "buying opportunities". ...

Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... intact and that there won't be any Grexit - at least, this month - if I ever saw one. Yet, the nays have it too. The Euro Stoxx 600 index sank by 1.0% and the Athens SE General Index down a hefty 2.5%. But no surprises here, we've been here before... ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... up by 0.4% in the first three months of 2015 - a significant underperformance compared with the 16.0% surge in the Euro Stoxx 600 index, the Nikkei-225 index's 10.1% advance and the FTSE-100's 3.2% gain. This is hardly surprising even if one were to ...

STOXX enters Australian market

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Global index provider STOXX Limited has expanded its presence in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of an office in Sydney. Jonathan Morgan has been appointed STOXX regional director and will head the Sydney office, with responsibility for STOXX ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... (US$1.0852) versus the greenback after initially dropping to US$1.0823 - its lowest level since September 2003 - and the Stoxx 600 gave back 0.3% at the close. "Selling on news" - the index has already notched up around 15% gain this year to date -- ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... export the region's weak growth and deflation somewhere else, anywhere but the eurozone. It's working, it's working. The Stoxx 600 index added another 0.8% overnight, taking its year-to-date gain to 8.8% (compared with the S&P 500's 2.4% appreciation). ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... 2008. If so, why so? Why has the Australian equity market outperformed its most of its peers (except for the Eurozone - the Stoxx 600 is up 11.4% this year to date -- which is in the midst of throwing bucket loads of money at its problem)? The All Ordinaries ...