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Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Australian shares are lower at noon following the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in Ukraine. Wall Street retreated sharply off the back of the news overnight. The Dow Jones closed 161.39 points, or 0.94% A lower to 16,976.81 after reaching a record ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... this. These are the reasons why financial markets - after the initial shock - have largely discounted the goings-on in the Ukraine. But perhaps, not anymore... not with the downing of a Malaysian commercial airline over Ukraine last night. The Russians ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... looks set to open lower following falls on international markets after a Malaysian airliner crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine in an incident some Ukrainians blame on pro-Russia separatist forces. At 0645 AEST on Friday, the September share price index ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... it be that investors are seeking the safety of US Treasuries amidst the on-going geo-political crisis in Iraq and the Ukraine, concerns over the stock market's valuation, doubts over the global recovery or more specifically, the uncertainty over America's ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... reports that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko threatened to cease the ceasefire with pro-Putin separatists in eastern Ukraine. To be fair, the Dow did not quite recoup the 0.7% lost the day before - up 0.3% overnight - nor did the S&P 500 (up 0.5% ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... pace since the market crashed six years ago. But the data were overshadowed by concerns over the conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine, CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian said. "The focus is still on the conflict that we're seeing in Iraq and the concerns ...

Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... would be tomorrow - or the day after or the next - when Wall Street climbs at the same time that the violence in Iraq (and Ukraine and Syria) remains in play.

S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... ranging from expensive valuations, slow economic growth (and therefore, tepid earnings growth), geo-politics - Iraq, Russia, Ukraine, Syria - and its effect on oil prices, the Fed is "behind the curve"... name it and you'll find it... a rationale for ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
Tensions continue in Iraq (has it ever gone away?), Russia's building up troops on Ukraine's border (38,000 and counting according to Ukraine) and the IMF has just released fresh forecasts for the US economy (crystal ball now shows growth at a flat ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... geopolitical events" - September 11, North Korea nukes, Thailand coup, China-Japan/Malaysia/Vietnam/Philippines island dispute, Ukraine - yet the S&P 500 index continues to break records. But let's just concentrate on the ones that directly impacted ...