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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... trading banks can do with their money. Rising unemployment claims and disappointing manufacturing data added to the pessimism in the world's bigges economy. European stocks also slipped on worries about large debts in member countries and the effects ...

Jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... it was not only the Federal Government, other big and much resourced institutions got caught up with the GFC-induced pessimism of the day. Again, the problem lies in extrapolating current events into the future and assuming "all things remained unchanged" ...

A tale of confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... be? Add to this higher petrol prices (up 69 per cent from the start of 2009) and disposable income is certainly shot. Pessimism about the US economy is also rising. The WSJ/NBC survey of 1,009 Americans conducted in the period 22-25 October revealed ...

Show me the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... most analysts have revised their forecasts higher this time around to compensate - or is it overcompensate? - for their pessimism last season. By raising the hurdle rate, they have also raised the odds of a pleasant surprise when companies report their ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...

Second half jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... what we have in the second half of 2009 and even beyond. Although faltering recently, optimism has replaced the deep pessimism of only six months ago. National governments and central banks have bet everything including the kitchen sink - and are prepared ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... bottomline not written in red? The rise in the US unemployment rate in June was the spark that started this renewed wave of pessimism. True, jobless people spend less. Less spending equals lower profits. But lesser workers also equal higher productivity. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... Street struggled to a mixed finish on Monday, as a better-than-expected survey on the US services sector helped offset pessimism from last week's grim unemployment report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average reversed early weakness and rose 44.13 points ...

Slippery - watch your step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... markets, the commodity market is also benefiting from investors' reduced risk aversion as optimism replaced the deep pessimism that was prevalent up until the first two months of 2009. While many trumpeted the 33 per cent gain in developed market equities ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... the highest since October last year -- from 9 in the previous month. For sure, this is still way below the 50 optimism/pessimism demarcation, but still an improvement. Where Wall Street sat, it saw manufacturing activity in New York improving. The Empire ...