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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher amid a ceasefire in Ukraine and hopes for a deal over Greece's bailout. At 0857 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 30 points at 5,747. A new roadmap aimed at ending a 10-month ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... Reserve's continued withdrawal of policy stimulation. The big dump of biotechs and social media stocks; Putin and Crimea and Ukraine (which by the by, made us worry about RISING oil prices); Israel/Palestine war, ISIS and QE end. Now them, they were ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... markets pushed higher, with traders reacting to corporate updates while keeping a watch over escalating tensions in eastern Ukraine in the absence of major economic data releases. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index rise 0.24 per cent to end Tuesday at ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Sanctions imposed by "the West" on Russia - that includes restricted access to international capital markets - due to Moscow's Ukraine incursion (reportedly heating up again) and most recently, the drop in crude oil prices (along with reduced crude exports) ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... dragging instead of driving growth. The sense of tumult is being exacerbated by war in the Middle East, the standoff in Ukraine, street protests in Hong Kong and the spread of Ebola to Dallas."... and midway through, it had this: "The latest catalyst ...

Nikko AM ups weighting to global shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... than consensus, but it does not appear to be headed for a hard landing, the committee believes. It also said problems in Ukraine and Iraq are not likely to escalate dramatically. While investors have begun to doubt whether reform measures in Japan are ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Gold stocks undervalued but likely to rise

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... current levels," he said. Uncertainties and conflicts such as the latest events in the Middle East and instability in Ukraine are likely to underpin the gold price throughout this year and the next. "In the US, financial-market and monetary policy risk ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... Street last week taking the S&P 500 index 1.1% and the Dow 0.9% lower over the past five trading days. Tensions in the Ukraine continue prompting the EU to raise its sanctions against Russia - adding 15 companies, including energy companies Gazprom Neft ...