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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, although the late fall on Wall Street will exercise a restraining influence on trading on Tuesday. Precious metals were lower, but base metals and oil were more buoyant. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street recovering after see-sawing throughout the day. European markets were higher, as were precious and base metals, and oil. On the ASX24 at 0659 AEDT, the ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... it came form any other source, I would quickly dismiss it as plain rumour mongering. But no! It was the venerable Wall Street Journal that broke the news. "The central bank is likely to unveil a program of U.S. Treasury bond purchases worth a few hundred ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Freeze frame. Wall Street has frozen with excitement. Disappointing US third quarter earnings releases last night didn't matter -majority of companies still beat expectations anyway. Data on US house prices didn't matter - they don't know where they're ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Wall Street indices were mixed, as were precious and base metals. Oil was flat. On the ASX24 at 0730 AEDT, the December share price index contract was four points lower ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was lower at noon, despite a positive lead from Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 22.9 points, or 0.49 per cent, at 4,687.1, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 19.9 ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
There is really nothing much to report today. Wall Street rose... a bit. The US dollar depreciated... more than a bit. There were positive reports out overnight. The third quarter reporting season is good. More than 86 per cent of companies in the S&P ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was slightly higher at noon, after a subdued lead from Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 12.8 points, or 0.28 per cent, at 4,635.7, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Something out of the "new ordinary" happened overnight. Wall Street climbed at the same time that the US dollar exchange rate went up. My trusted data source - Bloomberg - reported that, "The dollar strengthened against 13 of 16 major counterparts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with European equities markets strong, while Wall Street was flat to mixed. Commodities were lower and the US dollar rose. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0702 AEDT, the December ...