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The seventh week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... of working - or pretending to work. For then, our financial markets would be reacting to the 1.5 per cent slump on Wall Street last Friday and Dr. Doomy Roubini's "perfect storm" that would stunt growth from 2013. Add to these, the aftershocks to the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
The Australian market is expected to open slightly lower today, after Wall Street stabilised following steep losses on Friday. At 0706 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was down nine points at 4,525. In economics news on ...

The seventh day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... Those in the know, knows that this is the code word for 'rate hike' the following month. And then of course we have Wall Street - the conductor of the stock market orchestra. There was bad news on unemployment claims. They increased by 1,000 to 427,000 ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... look in your eyes." (my apologies to John Paul Young for cannibalising his classic) Another day, another down day on Wall Street -- and in Europe, and in Asia (except Japan), and in North and South America, and in Africa and the Middle East. To be sure ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... because of slow job creation and an eye on inflation. There goes QE3. Big Ben's words murdered the fledgling rebound on Wall Street earlier in the day - the S&P 500 ended in the red -- with investors interpreting his statement as not too dovish enough. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... mixed in the first day of region-wide trade after a long weekend, with bargain hunting weighed by another poor show on Wall Street and global economic fears. Tokyo gained 0.67 per cent, or 62.60 points, to 9,442.95 while Shanghai rose 0.60 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
Australian shares have opened lower again after a fourth consecutive fall on Wall Street due to concerns about ongoing economic weakness. At 1015 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 23.2 points, or 0.51 per cent, at 4,545.9, and the broader ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... falling. Bill Chatterton, RBS Morgans' director of equities, said the local market fell across the board in line with Wall Street losses. "There's no escape route today. It's not dramatically down, but we're in line with the US," he said. "I don't see ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... this point, this seems to be what the current VIX - "fear" -- index reading suggests. Despite another big fall on Wall Street last Friday, the VIX index went down by 0.8 per cent instead of going up. At 17.95, the index is down 38.9 per cent from its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... points. At 0601 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was down 33 points at 4,558 points. On Wall Street on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 97.29 points, or 0.79 per cent, at 12,151.30. The broader S&P 500 index ...