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Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... definitely a bit of a positive mood accross the market," CMC Markets Head of Trading James Foulsham said. "We had a pretty solid night in the US. Commodities, in particular, were very strong." As a result, BHP and Rio both were doing well. Rio Tinto ...

The perfect hedge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... price of gold has ranged traded between US$880 per ounce and US$980 per ounce. Spot gold closed at US$933.50 in NY last night - down 7.7 per cent from the all-time high of US$1,011.6 reached in March 2008. However, gold is far from losing its lustre. ...

Fed brawn, RBA brains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... cent higher. Another random walk on Wall Street, ya? But market commentators have to earn their daily bread, ya? So last night's session must be analysed, interpreted and extrapolated. Bloomberg - my favourite news source - spun last night's action this ...

Greener than green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... thought Wall Street has run out of puff, a tail wind comes to lift its sails. The Dow and the S&P 500 spent most of last night's trading activity in the red. For most of the session, investors were cashing in the profits they've amassed during the rally ...

Ways to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... pullback in Australian equities should be taken as buying opportunities. Oh, btw, the Dow broke above 9,000 points last night on green shoots in the US property market and better-than-expected jobless claims and company earnings. But this is no longer ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... sales report (on Wednesday)," he said. "We got no substantive lead from the US or in commodities to a great extent last night. "BHP is only down a bit, and Rio is up, so nothing decisive on the resources front." The major miners were mixed, with Rio ...

Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... plan to Congress before market clamour for it grows loud and annoying again. Benny's testimony before the US Congress last night painted an economy showing "notable improvements" and "many markets...functioning more normally" and America's "trading partners...also ...

Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... look to the future. The index of leading economic indicators provides us a glimpse of what lies ahead for America. Last night the Conference Board reported that the index rose by 0.7 per cent in June for its third consecutive increase. Yeah...so what? ...

Bullish bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... Right or wrong, they create waves...no, tsunamis. Thus, when Meredith said jump, Wall Street jumped. They rallied again last night when Nouriel told a Chilean investors conference in New York that, "The freefall of the economy has stopped," and that ...