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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... bourse fell as Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens said it was reasonable to conclude that Australia was in recession and that confidence was the key to recovery. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropped 91.6 points, or 2.43 per cent, to 3677.4 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... of strength in the US after better than expected company results. That was despite forecasts of a deep and prolonged recession from the International Monetary Fund. "The economic numbers out of the US overnight weren't great but the market seems to have ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... its weakest rate in a decade and ran with it, declaring that it 'provides stark evidence of the impact of the global recession on the mining boom, which supercharged Australia's economy in recent years' and therefore, 'make it certain that our own forecasts ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... continues to adjust and seek its equilibrium level. This happens every time an economy repairs itself and crawls out of a recession. In the 1990/91 recession for instance, the S&P 500 rose by more than 29 per cent from its bottom of 322.98 points in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after Wall Street rose on hints of the recession easing. At 0741 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 38 points at 3,790. In economic news on Thursday, the Reserve ...

J.P. Morgan backs Chinese stocks

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... "Although recent economic data confirmed that China was unable to escape the fallout from the financial turmoil and global recession, we are still looking at around seven per cent GDP growth for 2008, working on the assumption the policy stimulus will ...

Away for Easter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... because 'While certain mortgage problems are farther along, other areas are likely to accelerate, reflecting a rolling recession by asset class.' Mayo added that 'New government actions might not help as much as expected, especially given that loans ...

She'll be right mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... the week. This despite Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) Alistair Darling admitting that his country's recession is "worse than we thought" and that he thinks the first quarter 2009 economy would "be bad, because if you look around the world ...

GFC Problem solved

... Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared that, 'This is the day the world came together to fight back against the global recession, not with words but with a plan for global recovery and reform.' Ah yes, not with words but a plan. Problem solved. Again ...

Make love not leverage

... leading indicators of the US economy. It fell below 50 in December 2007 - later timed by NBER as the start of the US recession. The National Association of Realtors reported that US pending home sales rose by 2.1 per cent inn February after falling by ...