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The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... week, equity markets would have been given up more than they did overnight. The S&P 500 index slipped by 0.13%, the Euro Stoxx-50 index closed 0.7% while the FTSE-100 index ended 0.1% on the up. To be sure, to be sure, I'm not so sure that equity markets ...

Pigs may fly but they won't default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... measures! Wall Street was happy - the S&P 500 index gained 0.8 per cent on the news - but Europe was euphoric - the Euro Stoxx 50 index jumped 1.9 per cent and the FTSE-100 rallied by 1.5 per cent. If you think that's great, wait till you hear that Finland's ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... in Europe closed with plus signs in front of them. The S&P 500 index was plus 0.3 per cent higher at the final bell, the Stoxx-600 closed plus 0.7 per cent up and the FTSE-100 ended plus 0.2 per cent better. Oh no! This couldn't be - most of us have ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... after holding it at an 'emergency' low of 1.0 per cent since May 2009. But Eurozone equity markets seemed unfazed. The Euro Stoxx 50 index fell by less than 0.3 per cent overnight. And this in spite of Portugal now going cap-in-hand to the EU/IMF for ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... equity market rout. But if you did, you would have missed out on the S&P 500's 5.4 per cent gain over the quarter or the Euro Stoxx's 3.6 per cent appreciation and escaped a 4.6 per cent loss on the Nikkei. But you wouldn't put all your eggs in the S&P ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... still unresolved sovereign debt crisis and the growth dampening consequence of severe fiscal austerity measures. The Euro Stoxx index is up 4.4 per cent thus far in 2011. Undaunted? More likely, financial markets are undaunted by the turbulence of the ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... 0.8 percent at 4 p.m. in New York and is up 5 percent since March 16... Nine stocks gained for every one that fell in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index, which advanced 1 percent... The MSCI Emerging Markets Index gained 1 percent, its fifth advance. Benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... recovery hopes. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed 91.58 points lower, by 1.73 per cent, at 5,211.29 points. The Stoxx 50 index of leading eurozone companies fell 1.97 per cent to 2,675.02 points. FRANKFURT - The DAX was down 111.18 points ...

Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rallied the most since June 21, climbing 2.1 percent to a three- month high." Europe's DJ Stoxx 600 index and the FTSE-100 index jumped by 2.6 and 2.7 per cent, respectively and China's Shanghai Composite index climbed ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... foreign-currency reserve investment." And it is looking so. European equity markets produced a sharp last night. The benchmark Stoxx 600 index increased by 2.6 per cent but Spain's IBEX 35 index climbed even more - up 3.6 per cent - following news that ...