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Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The local bourse has opened in the red following losses from market heavyweights BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. CMC Markets chief strategist Michael McCarthy says the market was correcting itself to improve its chances of breaking through the 6,000 points ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
Central bank surprises continue. This week started with the People's Bank of China (PBOC) surprising with a weekend announcement that it is lowering both its benchmark one-year lending rate and one-year deposit rate by 25 basis points each to 5.35% ...

Majority slammed (again), equities dunked, A$ fouled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
"First, you think I'm going left. But I don't. So now you're thinking, am I going to go right or even confuse him by going left. So I go left again. Now you think I'm finally gonna go right but what I'm really gonna do is... and slam!" - Kevin Bacon ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... businesses and consumers would be induced to borrow and invest that would eventually set the virtuous cycle in motion. Oh yes, they're induced to borrow alright. The problem is, in these times of free and open capital markets and weak global demand (and ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... weeks have vindicated the "crisis" duo of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his cigar-smoking Treasurer Joe Hockey. Yes, Virginia. They've been telling us since they were still opposing Rudd then Gillard then Rudd how woeful Australia's economy ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... institutions' (http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2015/02/declan%20costello%20letter_1.jpg). Yes, yes, yo. The properties tab of the 'AcrobatPDFMaker 9.1 for Word' that document was typed onA reveals that Greece's official ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know. This is dear Aunt Janet's answer to the "lift-off" question that everyone has been waiting for - and speculating on -- since the Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
The Australian share market is pushing higher after market heavyweight BHP Billiton increased its dividend and announced fresh cost cutting. On a busy day of corporate earnings reports, BHP Billiton had the healthiest market reaction, with shares up ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... 2010; 48.0 in August 2011; 45.5 in October 2011. The markets' fear gauge hasn't seen the mid-20's level since June 2012 - and yes, this was again due to Grexit and contagion -- except for the jump to 26.3 in mid-October last year ahead of the Fed's final ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... from 1.24%; Spain's down to 1.53% from 1.61%; Italy's down to 1.55% from 1.86%. And Greece? They're up to 9.72% from 9.42%. Yes you know what this means Virginia, Greece has no "contagion" to bargain with this time, unlike his predecessor, Antonis Samaras ...