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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... Facebook (-1.1 per cent) and Apple (-0.7 per cent). LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed higher after European Central Bank president Mario Draghi hinted that policymakers were prepared to cut rates in June. The euro hit a two-and-a-half-year ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... target". This is also another positive as it eases inflation pressure on the economy that would give the Australian central bank scope to lower interest rates should it become necessary. And it might... be necessary... soon enough, particularly if next ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
Phew! That was close. No Virginia, we didn't hear this sigh of relief from European Central Bank president Mario Draghi yesterday, but we would have had the Fed's policy announcement and America's first quarter GDP growth update not drowned out the ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
You can almost taste it. It's nearly here. That time of year when that age-old Wall Street adage tells us to go away. May is coming! And right on cue, we get spooks from renewed and escalated tension in the Ukraine and more evidences of a slowing China ...

Risk management top concern for sovereign wealth funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
The majority of sovereign wealth funds and central banks globally have said risk management is a major concern, according to a recent survey carried out by State Street Corporation. The 'New Horizons for Official Institutions' report, released today ...

Knight Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... in March versus expectations for a 0.4% gain. Better, February's 0.6% advance was recalibrated to a 1.2% pick up. Central bank policies would continue to be easy. I have turned black and blue convincing some (many? most?) gentle readers that this would ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... industrial production bolstered sentiment while the Federal Reserve's Beige Book on US economic conditions confirmed the central bank's view that recent weakness was largely due to bad winter weather. Data also showed that China's gross domestic product ...

Trend - up, down or up and down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
And a bounce, bounce here and a bounce, bounce there, everywhere a bounce, bounce. This, Virginia, was what Wall Street did overnight - it was up, then down, the back up again... all in a day's trade. It was up on good first quarter earnings reports ...

Bouncy bouncy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
Thank goodness for small mercies. Good Friday came a bit early for me after one gentle reader crucified me and my take on Dr. Marc Faber's uber bearish prediction that a "1987-style crash" is nigh... again! Read all about my early crucifixion here ...

A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The Johnny Littles of the financial market world are once more coming out of the woodworks, proclaiming that, "A crash is coming, a crash is coming"! They point to the biotech and social media stocks that are fast running out of puff that could produce ...