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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... were starting on the front foot. Wall Street bounced back on Friday, a day after selloffs in the wake of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in rebel-held eastern Ukraine. Mr Farnham said that while the market was slightly higher, a fall in ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
Just when we thought it was no longer safe to go back into the water...... dip buyers again went buying the dip. We don't have to go very, very far back in history to see this for this was clearly on parade just over the past very few days. Recall how ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... market on Friday edged higher despite local investors and markets around the world being unnerved by the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 9.3 points, or 0.17 per cent, to 5,531.7 ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Australian shares are lower at noon following the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in Ukraine. Wall Street retreated sharply off the back of the news overnight. The Dow Jones closed 161.39 points, or 0.94% A lower to 16,976.81 after reaching a record ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
"Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace..." -- Imagine, John Lennon On their own, they could have been easily ignored by financial markets - and dip ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on international markets after a Malaysian airliner crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine in an incident some Ukrainians blame on pro-Russia separatist forces. At 0645 AEST on Friday, the September ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... amass troops in the Ukrainian border (this is still on-going). Still on-going is Syria, China-Vietnam/Japan/Philippines/Malaysia tit for tats over a few pieces of rock floating on the ocean... and currently showing at a theatre near us, Iraq. Yes Virginia ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... history? We had lotsa lotsa "major geopolitical events" - September 11, North Korea nukes, Thailand coup, China-Japan/Malaysia/Vietnam/Philippines island dispute, Ukraine - yet the S&P 500 index continues to break records. But let's just concentrate ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... Yet despite this deceleration, the country's economic growth remains faster than that of its peers - Thailand (0.5%); Malaysia (5.1%); Indonesia (5.7%). Who's the "Sick Man of Asia" now? Increased optimism over the Philippine economy is clearly apparent ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... ever-so-slight expansion, it will probably push us back into the red. "It's also May Day, so Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia are all shut, as well as Europe, so there will be light volumes. "All of that could spell a little bit of red towards ...