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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... citing strong sales. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets have risen, extending the previous day's surge as fears about the Ukraine crisis eased. Frankfurt's main DAX index on Tuesday added 0.96 per cent compared with Monday's close to end the day at ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... US and Europe. CMC markets chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said an engaging of concerns over the situation in Ukraine had helped boost global market sentiment. Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than one per cent overnight ...

Fund managers: Tide turning in emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... markets in the second half of 2014 are likely to be geopolitical risks and interest rate sensitivity. "Ongoing tensions in Ukraine have impacted the Russian economy and the escalation of sanctions will have a broader impact on a fragile European economy. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... Australian market looks set to open higher, after US stocks rallied on the back of fading fear about a clash between Russia and Ukraine forces. At 0656 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 25 points at 5,554. Wall ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... end of last week's trade "due to easing geo-political tensions" to a reading of 13.15 (despite end-of-week reports that Ukraine fired on a Russian "humanitarian" convoy that crossed its borders). The index's current reading remains consistent with those ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... per cent, at 5,559.6. NEW YORK - US shares have rebounded late to end mixed after an early bout of selling on news that Ukraine had shelled Russian armoured vehicles after they entered its territory. Worries that the Friday incident would lead to a direct ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... Russian military plates, travelling towards the border near the Russian town of Donetsk - about 200km away from Donetsk, Ukraine". "For some observers, the large convoy moving with obvious top-level coordination and accompanied by numerous vehicles with ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... "warned of a "high probability" that Russia, using the guise of a humanitarian mission, could intervene militarily in Ukraine". Now everybody's onto it - even US President BO (not Benjamin Ong, ehem). Barack Obama warned Vladimir Putin not to use "humanitarian ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... stumbled after recording strong gains a day earlier, with sentiment hit by weak German data and uncertain developments in Ukraine. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index stood at 6,632.42 points at the close on Tuesday, virtually the same level it closed ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Rasmussen warned of a "high probability" that Russia, using the guise of a humanitarian mission, could intervene militarily in Ukraine." Shush, don't state the obvious. Happy days are here again for Obama successfully diverted attention from Russia into ...