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Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... employment figures today - along with revisions for July and August. Could we trust these new numbers? At least, we don't hear China arguing that its stats aren't faked.

Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... down this 2014 road before. January 24 - S&P 500 down by 2.1% because of emerging market "crisis" because of Fed taper and China slowdown. February 3 - S&P 500 down by 2.3% because of 'same as above', with concerns about Japan and the impact of the consumption ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... off to a slightly weak start, with resources stocks again among the worst performers. But he said with markets closed in China, South Korea and India for public holidays, trading volumes were likely to be light. "That could keep volumes quite light so ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... line up the usual suspects (and some freshly picked ones): interest rate concerns; geo-politics - Iraq, Syria, Russia, HK/China; tepid global growth; Ebola.... and then the dip buyers, the bargain hunters, the bottom fishers come... and suddenly all ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... higher the US dollar travels the worst it is for commodity prices, generally speaking, and adding to this is less demand from China which is pushing down commodity prices and hurting mining stocks." The market is awaiting official Chinese manufacturing ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... epidemic - Ebola (recall how we peed our pants with SARS, bird flu and swine flu not so long ago?). There's the world economy - China's slowing, Japan's re-slowing and deflation continues to threaten the Eurozone. There's overvaluation, there's deteriorating ...

Market Wrap AM

MARKET WRAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... to 5,292.8 and Shanghai climbed 0.26 per cent, or 6.16 points, to 2,363.87 on the last day before a week-long holiday for China's National Day. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 4.47 points, 0.1 per cent, to 5255.037.

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... Indonesia in the north-west bloc; Mexico, Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Indian sub-continent in the south-west bloc; and China-centred East Asia in the south-east bloc. "The developed world can also be handily described by this matrix", said Power. ...