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The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... It's all right." -- The Beatles Wall Street again went on a record breaking run last week with the S&P 500, the DJIA, the Nasdaq Composite and the Russell 2000 all finishing at all-time highs... and for good reasons. Growth is going and inflation is ...

Getting better and betterer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... all over the financial headlines one day after another. Less focused on was the fact that the S&P 500, the DJIA and the Nasdaq all recorded only one down month for the entire year - a record in itself - and these, despite geopolitical concerns, the threat ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... first week of 2018 tally shows all four major Wall Street equity indices - S&P 500 (+2.6%), Dow Jones Industrials (+2.3%), Nasdaq Composite (+3.4%), Russell 2000 (+1.6%) -- surged to new record highs; so has the FTSE-100 index (+0.47%); the All Ordinaries ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... one year to 2019." All major US equity indices closed lower that fateful day - the S&P 500 index fell by 9.8 points; the Nasdaq by 39.1 points; the Russell 2000 by 16.7 points - but these aren't headline material unlike the three-figure 101.4-point "slump" ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... to fresh all-time highs. The Russell 2000 index is now up 24.6% since Trump's win, eclipsing similar period gains in the Nasdaq (24.3%); the DJIA (22.1%) and the S&P 500 (17.3%). No one could fault the equity markets for giving this tax plan the benefit ...

On the road to normal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... of boom, the US equity markets are having one of its own with all major equity indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones Industrials; Nasdaq composite; Russell 2000 - at or near record highs, indicating confidence in the US economic outlook. This provides a sort ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... reached on 7 August; The Dow is up 11.3% and just 0.6% from the all-time high registered on the same day (7 August); the Nasdaq has reached a fresh record high, producing a 19.5% gain this year to date. To be sure, the second estimate of US GDP showed ...

Japanese broker targets Aussie SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... the oldest online broker in Asia. In 2011, Monex acquired TradeStation in the US and at that time it was registered on NASDAQ - it remains the sixth largest online broker in the US. Monex is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is the third largest ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Wall Street's on a tear with all of the equity market's benchmark indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq; Russell 2000 - hitting record highs last week. The most proximate cause is, of course, the strong June quarter earnings results. According to Factset ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... gauging from the heavy selling on Wall Street and Europe overnight. The S&P 500 index closed 0.9% lower last night (the Nasdaq even more, down 1.4%) while the Stoxx Europe fell by 1.3%. [To see Ben's Australian private sector credit analysis, click here.] ...