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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... Melbourne. On Wednesday, the Australian sharemarket closed at a five-year low amid fears the economy is heading for recession. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 52.8 points, or 1.64 per cent, lower at 3166.4, its lowest close since August 2003. The ...

Japan wins for local instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
The Japanese economy may be in recession but that hasn't stopped local investors with assets allocated to astute Japan fund managers from making money, or at least preserving much of their capital, based on latest Rainmaker research. According to Rainmaker ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... in distress. Businesses are failing. Workers are losing their jobs. The economy is contracting and perhaps the global recession would be deeper. There were rumours and rumours of rumours of nationalisation. Announcement of more government bail-outs and ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... Falling industrial output leads to less imported inputs demanded from other countries (UK, Eurozone and Japan go into recession). The process is repeated in these countries and the negative loop-the-loop plays all over again. Against this backdrop, investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... rather than big shifts in sentiment over the economy - they are still looking down a long list of concerns about the recession and the stability of banks. At settlement, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 88.81 points, or by 1.22 per cent, to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has given Wall Street a double dose of reassurance. Bernanke told Congress Monday that the recession might end this year, and that regulators aren't planning to nationalise banks. The news alleviated some of investors' deepening ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... Jones industrial average reached its levels of October 1997 as investors succumbed to their growing worries about a recession that has no end in sight. Most financial stocks were pounded even as government agencies led by the Treasury Department said ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... The meeting became particularly crucial after Moody's reported that eastern Europe have succumb to the contagion and a recession there would be more severe than those in the west of the Continent, putting at risk western European banks' loans and investments ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... 'American Dream' alive. The financial markets verdict is that this again would be unable to stop the US economy from the recession America had to have. Time and again since the days of the Maestro - Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan - authorities bent over ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... economy continued to move forward during Japan's lost decade in the 1990s. The Australian economy slowed but avoided a recession when the Asian financial crisis of 1998 spread to the economies of Latin America and Russia. The Australian economy slowed ...