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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... cent, Kuala Lumpur closed down 0.64 per cent, and Jakarta fell 0.71 per cent. Bangkok and Mumbai were closed for public holidays. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market was flat for most of the day and stepped into negative territory near the close. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... the move was expected the timing took some by surprise, China's markets were closed on Monday and Tuesday for public holidays. Hong Kong markets were closed on Tuesday for a public holiday. In other markets, Singapore closed 0.75 per cent higher, with ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... Seoul gained 0.69 per cent, or 14.56 points, to 2,130.43. Markets in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan were closed for public holidays. China's central bank said it would raise one-year deposit and lending rates by 25 basis points -- the fourth rise since ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... cent, on bargain hunting as a sharp sell-off of equities tapered off. Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur were closed for public holidays. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket closed on a positive note on Tuesday, with Freightways proving to be the biggest ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... in Egypt hit Tokyo shares and sent oil prices higher on Thursday, with most markets in Asia closed for Lunar New Year holidays. Tokyo ended 0.25 per cent, or 26 points, lower at 10,431.36 after news that anti-government protests in Egypt had turned violent ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
"Torn between two lovers, feelin' like a fool" - Mary MacGregor Good thing my wife is on holidays far, far away otherwise the shape of my skull would be embedded in one of our frying pans when she reads my opening line. But honey, you know I refer not ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... CMC Markets analyst David Taylor said. "There was a positive lead from European markets overnight, Wall Street was on holidays and we did get a bit of a lift from metals prices and commodities overnight. "Investors are probably taking a lighter approach ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... won't they?" question over a second quantitative easing by the Fed, the share market may have as well joined in on the holidays. At least, there was some action there unlike what happened over the weekend when the G-7 Ministers met in Washington for ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... globe's tall poppy that is Australia? Is it trying to scare us, Australians, that soon we won't be able to afford overseas holidays? Bu whatever Bloomberg's reasons, the fluctuating Australian dollar is one of the major automatic stabilisers that served ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... because of, according to Bloomberg, "Bigger back-to-school discounts, an increase in the number of states offering tax-free holidays and the restoration of extended jobless benefits..." To double dip or not to double dip remains the question for America. ...