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Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
Dateline 1 July 1997. Many will remember this day, the day that the United Kingdom handed Hong Kong back to the People's Republic of China. There was much trepidation and fear in the air leading up to the expiration of the UK's 99-year lease on the ...

Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
Ain't this just a swell way to start a fresh month? I can almost hear equity markets around the globe singing, "Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out Yeah! I'm floating around in ecstasy So ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Another day, another flat, uneventful day on Wall Street. Reports out overnight were mostly positive but these did not stop profit-taking on The Street. Good news on the US jobs front... but not good enough. Initial claims for unemployment insurance ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
There you go. I guess the economic outlook does not "remain unusually uncertain" now. This is if you believed yesterday's headlines that the cause of Wall Street's fall the previous day was because of Ben Bernanke's statement that, "the economic outlook ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
Growth or recovery, slowdown or double dip? This is the question that's been bugging financial markets in recent times. This is all well and good but the problem is markets appear to be talking themselves down and are busy at work desperately searching ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with key Wall Street indices all closing lower again, and metals and oil also all down. Some boost may be expected if the market responds favourably to a compromise ...

Down on old news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
What really was Moody's intention in announcing that it may downgrade Spain's credit rating last night? Is it Moody's way of proving that it still matters? That it could still move markets? According to Bloomberg, "US stocks fell, extending the first ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
Australian shares are set to fall after Wall Street dropped on the possibility of criminal charges into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and ongoing concerns about Europe's financial sector. At 0746 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price ...

Bad news on Good Friday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
It's times like these that those who want to spook the market have their moment. A time when investors are anxiously gnawing on their fingers waiting for the final verdict. That verdict of course is that one single number contained in the US Non-farm ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Running of the bulls. Peppered with undeniably wonderful set of numbers, Wall Street couldn't have it any other way overnight. The Dow closed 1.2 per cent higher - the biggest daily advance in about a month - the S&P 500 surged 1.4 per cent and the ...