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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open flat after a game of brinkmanship between European leaders and Greek bondholders drove the region's stock markets lower as investors worried that a deal needed to cut Athens' mountain of debt might fall ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher. At 0800 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 16 points at 4,208. No major economic news is expected on Tuesday. In equities news, Newcrest Mining and Aquarius Platinum give ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
The Australian stock market at noon on Monday was slightly lower as investors awaited news on the Greek debt situation. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 7.4 points, or 0.17 per cent, weaker at 4,232.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
The Australian market is set to open significantly higher as world markets surged on a move by six central banks to boost liquidity for banks weighed down by downgraded government debt. European markets rose by over three per cent and Wall Street is ...

A liquid Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
Central banks of the world unite! The going must be getting tough because the tough (central banks) got going. Six of the world's biggest central banks -US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go." Oh yes Virginia, happy days have come back. Wall Street's up, Europe's up, Asia and Australia are up and up. Scan through the headlines and you get the impression that though all remains ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following mixed movements on Wall Street but a higher close on European markets despite Italy being forced to pay record rates at a bond auction and intense pressure on eurozone finance ministers to avert ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... fell 1.07 per cent to 5,850.17 points. Milan lost 1.43 per cent and Madrid shed 0.40 per cent as the Spanish finance minister insisted the country was not in any need of a bailout despite a sharp rise in borrowing costs. Despite the gloomy backdrop ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... night jumped to 7%. A new day, same trepidation, same fear over contagion. This was (again) underscored by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warning (again) that the crisis is beginning to take its toll on the real economy and urged vigilance ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
We've had the "risk on risk off" trade, we've had the "hope" trade and now we have the "headline" trade. And this you and I can plainly see on the intra-day ticks of last night's trading activity. Major equity markets in Asia and most of Europe -- Italy ...