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Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
Is that bad news on your pocket... or you're just happy to see me? Yes Virginia, equity markets are rejoicing as the roll of bad news continued overnight. US initial unemployment claims increased by more than expected to 311K in the week ended 9 August ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
You kiddin' me? I had to go through not one, not two, nor three but several websites to verify what I was reading Saturday morning (Melbourne time), that Wall Street jumped - with the S&P 500 index's Friday surge erasing all of the losses it made from ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened lower as tensions increase over Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts. Australia's market followed negative leads on Wall Street overnight with all three major US exchanges ending the day in the red. The Dow Jones ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... aggression... even if they hurt themselves in the process. Instead, me, myself and I am BMHS - banging my head sighing. Sanction me, sanction you. Equity markets fell on heightened geo-political risk concerns following news that Russian President Vladimir ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The Australian sharemarket has opened flat following soft leads on Wall Street. The Dow Jones finished 0.08 per cent higher at 16,443.34 overnight after Russia imposed fresh sanctions against the West and Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox withdrew an ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street closed little changed. At 0803 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was down eight points at 5,450. Locally, in economic news on Thursday, The Australian Bureau ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
Oh well, at least I got that one right. Er, half right to be fully correct. I was so wrong in thinking that the growing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan as the next big 'crisis' to watch out for but I was bloody right that it would be Vlad that ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
Ho-hum. It's now so predictable that it's become so triple ho-hum boring. Yes folks, "Chumbawamba" still rules on Wall Street - it gets knocked down but it gets up again, nothing's ever going to keep it down. Only yesterday, I listed the list of crises ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
The Australian share market is slightly lower, as investors digest the impact of Argentina's debt default and US and European Union sanctions against Russia. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the market was relatively quiet as it tried to balance ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
By all indications, Wall Street should have closed on the hop last night, but it didn't. The S&P 500 index ended practically unchanged - up 0.01% -- despite the FOMC announcing it's steady as she goes (as expected) and the economy rebounding in the ...