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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... sales, but also from spending on a wide range of other goods. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's comment that the recession "is very likely over" also appeared to help the mood as investors reflected on the one-year anniversary of the collapse of ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... fixes anything. This has been proven over the past year. Germany, France, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore are now out of recession. Australia never had one. And the US and the UK are getting there. Anyone who still doubt that the globe would recover only ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... fourth straight day Wednesday on the heels of strong gains in Europe and renewed optimism about recovery from the global recession. The market consolidated gains after a positive economic outlook by the US central bank, traders said. The outlook for ...

Aussie dollar rises to restore equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... than half a greenback. Investors, traders and speculators were not short of explanations for their predictions. Global recession. Falling commodity prices. Falling interest rates. Risk aversion. End of the yen carry. Australian recession. China slowdown. ...

Mmm...bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... was not even convinced that inflation pressures were moderating. Four months later, December 2007 and voila! - the US recession commences. Ahhh...but this time, it's different! The Fed is correct. Unemployment is still rising, credit standards are tighter ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... of US economic activity. Without more help from consumers, the economy will have trouble pulling out of the longest recession since World War II. When it settled after trading closed for the day, the Dow had fallen 29.93, or 0.3 per cent, to 9280.67. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
The Australian share market may fall a little further on Tuesday after equity markets around the world slumped overnight on concerns about heavy losses in Chinese stocks on Monday. At 0718 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

Recovery is too fast, too furious: IML

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... the fund manager's August newsletter, Tagliaferro said although local economy appears to have avoided a deep economic recession, the Australian share market has risen too fast and some stocks are priced too optimistically. "Given the prospect of de-leveraging ...

Not bullish enough, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... when many others have lost faith - when some were not content with forecasting just a normal run-of-the-mill type of recession, but a "Great Recession." The fire of interest rate hike speculation would burn even more brightly should Wednesday's Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... European equities rallied on Friday, boosted by some better-than-expected company news and data showing that the British recession was not as deep as expected in the second quarter. London's FTSE 100 index closed up 39.55 points, or 0.81 per cent, at ...