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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... (0.15 per cent) to 1,707.14, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index added 3.36 (0.09 per cent) at 3,692.95. The US growth outlook appeared firmer as the Institute for Supply Management's July purchasing managers index for the services sector showed ...

No need to fear 1994-style crash

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
The US Federal Reserve will get their policy action right, and there is no need to fear a 1994-style crash in bonds, according to Fidelity Worldwide Investment head of quantitative research David Buckle. Global bonds and equity markets have shown signs ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... place when it meets on Tuesday and Wednesday. In addition, the International Monetary Fund pared its 2014 forecast for US growth, blaming the government's sharp "sequester" spending cuts. LONDON - Europe's top stock markets managed small gains as traders ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... NEW YORK - Sellers have taken over US stock markets as an expanded trade deficit offered a fresh sign of weakness in US growth. Volatility continued to reign: after an early rise the main indices sank to one-per cent losses before partially recovering ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... dividend-rich stocks like utilities. LONDON - European stock markets rose despite plunging Japanese stocks, as traders digested US growth data and signs of improved confidence in the eurozone. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares gained 0.45 per ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... footing." Yes Virginia, last week the disappointing results from the Empire State and the Philly Fed surveys indicated that US growth momentum is on the slow lane. Headline: "China's Recovery Falters as Manufacturing Growth Cools". Opening para: "China's ...

A week's walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... 2.1% it predicted only three months ago. Hang on...didn't the IMF warned in March that it'll shave half a percent to US growth if the 'sequester' proceeds. It's in effect now, isn't it? The IMF may have opted to keep Uncle Sam's moustache on. At any ...

Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... lessened to 7.6% from 7.7% in February, but only because of the reduction in those Americans looking for work. Slowing US growth equals Fed unwinding. Doesn't make any sense, does it? That's why the dip buyers have made a meal of it. And they're the ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... spending cuts. The day before the cuts went into effect, the IMF went on record saying that, it would reduce its 2013 US growth forecast of 2.0% by 0.5% as a result of the "$85 billion in spending cuts...due to begin tomorrow". (Bloomberg, 28 February). ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... warm and sunny days ahead. The ISM manufacturing index - what I consider the most reliable and consistent predictor of US growth - jumped to 53.1 last month from 50.2 in December. And again even better, all five components of the index - new orders ...