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On the verge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... floors of commodity markets and most major equity markets around the world. The S&P 500 dropped by 4.5% last night, the Euro Stoxx 50 lost 5.3%, the FTSE 100 shed 4.5% while we're all asleep. All because Morgan Stanley (MS) mentioned the 'R' word again ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... while the Dow returned all - and then some. But it was Europe - the epicentre of the "joke" - that cried more. The Euro Stoxx-50 dropped by 6.1% at the close with equity gauges in the core countries of the Eurozone dropping big time. The German DAX index ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... 4.3% overnight to close at 11,383.7 while the S&P 500 Index was down 60.27 points or 4.78% to 1200.07. In Europe, the Euro Stoxx 50 index fell 85.5 points or 3.4% to end at 2412.29, its lowest point since 2009. In London the FTSE 100 lost 191.37 points ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... week, equity markets would have been given up more than they did overnight. The S&P 500 index slipped by 0.13%, the Euro Stoxx-50 index closed 0.7% while the FTSE-100 index ended 0.1% on the up. To be sure, to be sure, I'm not so sure that equity markets ...

Pigs may fly but they won't default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... measures! Wall Street was happy - the S&P 500 index gained 0.8 per cent on the news - but Europe was euphoric - the Euro Stoxx 50 index jumped 1.9 per cent and the FTSE-100 rallied by 1.5 per cent. If you think that's great, wait till you hear that Finland's ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... after holding it at an 'emergency' low of 1.0 per cent since May 2009. But Eurozone equity markets seemed unfazed. The Euro Stoxx 50 index fell by less than 0.3 per cent overnight. And this in spite of Portugal now going cap-in-hand to the EU/IMF for ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... equity market rout. But if you did, you would have missed out on the S&P 500's 5.4 per cent gain over the quarter or the Euro Stoxx's 3.6 per cent appreciation and escaped a 4.6 per cent loss on the Nikkei. But you wouldn't put all your eggs in the S&P ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... still unresolved sovereign debt crisis and the growth dampening consequence of severe fiscal austerity measures. The Euro Stoxx index is up 4.4 per cent thus far in 2011. Undaunted? More likely, financial markets are undaunted by the turbulence of the ...

RIP May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... (The Castle) would say, "Tell 'em they're dreamin'!" My back-of-the-envelope calculations show that Europe's Dow Jones Euro Stoxx index would need to jump by almost 7.9 per cent when it trades later tonight to wipe off all of its May losses. Australia's ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... you consider that over the same period, the S&P 500 and the All Ords returned minus 4.8 per cent, Europe's Dow Jones Euro Stoxx index and Japan's Nikkei-225 index also remain below the September 2008 level -- down remains down 15.1 per cent and 14.3 ...