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Healing US, crouching Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... for America. Just trust Big O when he proclaimed that what is good for the good ol' US of A is good for the world. Last night's market activity showed that investors really didn't give an F over these non-US economies' twisting and shouting. They ran ...

Head faked again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... spending again and businesses borrowing more. But reports show that American businesses are already awash with cash. Just last night, Oracle announced that it has agreed to buy Art Technology Group for US$1 billion in cash. American businesses are merging ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... are precious and base metals and oil. The Australian dollar briefly reached parity once more with the US dollar on Tuesday night. On the ASX24 at 0754 AEDT, the December share price index contract was 13 points higher at 4,714 points. In economics news ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Freeze frame. Wall Street has frozen with excitement. Disappointing US third quarter earnings releases last night didn't matter -majority of companies still beat expectations anyway. Data on US house prices didn't matter - they don't know where they're ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... data was good. US existing home sales rose by a better-than-expected 10.7 per cent in September. But the highlight of last night's market activity is the good ol' US dollar and its renewed slide. Bloomberg says, it "depreciated against all but one of ...

Cashed up AustralianSuper ready to pounce

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... the year. Bernie Fraser, independent director and AustralianSuper investment committee chair, told a Sydney audience last night that the fund is poised to make further investments outside of cash. The fund did not buy a single share from late 2007 during ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... overnight because of China's surprise interest rate rise, he said. "It's just big currency plays and that got unstitched last night by the Chinese increasing interest rates and strengthening the US dollar." On the local market, heavyweight BHP Billiton ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... ultimate effect will be the same, property prices would remain under pressure. So in case, you think there's meaning to last night's trading activity on Wall Street, there's none. Investors are simply treading water while they wait for the US Federal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... European markets also were mixed. The Australian dollar was holding above 99 US cents, but was off its highs of Thursday night when it appeared about to reach parity with the US dollar. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0735 AEDT, the December share ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... the Fed will come bearing the gift of QE2 on the 3rd of November. And with this, it's "risk on"! Risk assets gained last night led by strong gains on Wall Street and commodity markets. There's now a sense of "heads - I win", "tails - I win again" pervading ...