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Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... was Big Ben's US$600 billion handout that halted what was beginning to look like the start of a weakening trend on Wall Street last summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This freshly minted money's still in play and gauging from Big Ben's recent rhetoric ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... as due to Chinese stats office re-weighting of the CPI component - less food weight and more for housing items. The Wall Street Journal calculates that inflation would have been up 5.1 per cent using the old weights. Even in America, higher prices are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
The Australian market is receiving negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices all clearly lower, along with oil, although precious metals were higher. On the ASX 24 at 0714 AEDT, the March share price index futures ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... market was slightly lower at open with positive leads in the banking and mining sectors following a flat performance on Wall Street overnight. At 1024 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 2.2 points at 4,933.6, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices flat and mixed, precious metals higher, but oil was lower. On the ASX 24 at 0854 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was seven ...

Catching its second wind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
What's this? More good news out of America and yet Wall Street went nowhere overnight? The Dow closed just a little bit (0.1 per cent) lower. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended last night's session just a tad (0.1 per cent) higher. It was hilarious reading ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... lower at 10,605.65 as Japanese traders went into consolidation mode before a public holiday and after a weak lead from Wall Street. In Tokyo Toyota stood out, with the car giant's shares surging after it revised its full-year earnings outlook upwards ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
The Australian market has flat to mixed negative leads from offshore trading overnight. The Dow ended higher, but Wall Streets's other key indices were lower, as were European and Asian markets in Wednesday trade. Precious metals were higher, but oil ...

Wall Street does an Abbott

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... as authorities ramp up efforts to curb borrowing and tame inflation. Markets generally were given a strong cue by Wall Street, where the Dow Jones Industrial Index jumped 0.57 per cent to its strongest finish since June 2008, while the Nasdaq gained ...