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Mid-Morning Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market has opened higher, led by strong gains in the resources sector and helped by a positive night on offshore bourses. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 38.5 points, or 0.85 per cent, at 4,580.1 points, while ...

Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... 2010. Never mind, this was yesterday's news. And didn't I tell you just yesterday this was pretty enough? Data out last night were one for the bulls - or at least, seen to be one for the bulls. I know they've outlawed bullfighting in Catalonia, Spain. ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... else do we have? Of course, we're still in the midst of company reporting season. There was good news and bad news last night. First the bad news. The techs did it. Akamai Technologies reported better-than-expected top line revenue growth, its profits ...

Coalition details stance on commissions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... corporate law, challenged opposition finance spokesperson, Andrew Robb, to provide detail of their superannuation policy last night on Lateline. Robb declined adding the Coalition had not made any final decision on the matter. Meanwhile, Kerry Chikarovski ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... on their pre-conceived views of where the investment world is headed. There was good news on the US housing market last night. The S&P/Case-Shiller home price index rose by 1.3% in May -- the second straight monthly increase - following a 0.9 per cent ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... second quarter earnings results instead. These are the ones that are un-mistakenly positive. Fedex was in the headlines last night. It beat profit expectations. It lifted its earnings forecasts. Fedex is one of the 83 per cent of companies in the S&P ...

Stress test stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... on the line - and it is found wanting. In local news, we were all glued to our HDTV sets between 6:30PM and 7:30 PM last night to watch "The Great Debate". It was going to be history making when first femme Prime Minister Julia Gillard battle it out ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... an excuse to go up, and this is as good an excuse as we needed. "Clearly, the Americans were in a very bullish mood last night and we've followed on." The Australian market was led higher by the miners and the banks. BHP Billiton was up 1.71 per cent ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... announcements and forecasts (and positive European economic news). Yes, Virginia. According to news reports, these were behind last night's surge in equity markets. But company earnings reports were also nice and pretty the previous day when Wall Street ...

Wall Street takes a dive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... after Danny Green grazed his forehead 29 seconds in the first round of their IBO cruiserweight world title showdown last night, so it was for Wall Street. No Virginia, it didn't take as short as the 29 seconds it took before Briggs hit the canvass... ...