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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... On Monday, the Australian share market closed lower after disappointing US jobs data cast a shadow over the US growth recovery story. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ended down 123.5 points, or 2.78 per cent, weaker at 4,325.9 points, while the broader ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... hiring. The bottomline is that this was a weak report -- even made more pronounced by hyped up expectations. But the US recovery continues.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... April and the lowest number since January, the non-farm payrolls report said. The news made it clear that the economic recovery isn't yet picking up the momentum that investors have been looking for. The government said 431,000 jobs overall were created ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... sinkhole that swallowed a three storey building in Guatemala. More important, it would signal to the world that the US recovery is gathering momentum -- it's not going to turn its V into a W - offering a positive counterbalance to the ongoing debt crisis ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2010
... to 4,506.2. NEW YORK - US stocks eked out minor gains on Thursday as investors mulled mixed signals on the US economic recovery ahead of a highly awaited May jobs report. After opening with modest gains, the major indices slid lower but clawed their ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... purchasing managers index, fell to an 11-month low of 52.7 last month from a revised figure of 55.2 in April, indicating the recovery of China's manufacturing sector lost some momentum. A separate survey released by a government agency showed manufacturing ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... (OECD) warned in its latest Economic Outlook, Australia must not underestimate the threat of the uneven pace of global recovery and financial market volatility on its economic fortune. And when in doubt, what's a central bank to do? The RBA's best bet ...

RIP May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... derivatives and "green shoots" to effect a turnaround in investor psychology and economic agents that brought forth the world's recovery from near-depression. What more now that it's the first derivatives that have improved and the green shoots have ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... Fitch cut Spain's credit rating, reviving fears that eurozone financial woes will unravel the fragile global economic recovery. Stocks opened lower as investors booked profits from huge gains on Thursday that had pushed the Dow up almost 300 points. ...

Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... one dropping, did it? Think of the chain of events. China dumps euros, euro drops, financial markets tailspin, global recovery falters, global growth slows/recedes, and so on and so forth. Problem not fixed. The thing to take out of all this is that ...