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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... quarter financial results. Economic data was positive, with a government report showing the number of newly laid-off Americans filing claims for unemployment insurance fell last week. A report on manufacturing in the New York region also topped expectations. ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... foreign capital into American shores without risking further contraction in the economy. Oh no sir! Not while jobless Americans are still growing in number. Tourists could indeed find themselves computing their spending money in euros or in yens or in ...

FBI hunts down bank fraudsters

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... by the computer, including hacking, fraud and identity theft, with a common greed and shared willingness to victimise Americans. The FBI is grateful for the assistance of its law enforcement partners in the U.S. and the Egyptian government's dedicated ...

October - an E (entry/exit) point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... clunkers' program. Spending would decline in coming months now that this program has ended. Negative spin number 2. Americans are back to their spendthrift habit - spending beyond their means - especially with personal income rising by only 0.2 per cent ...

Wealth effect turns positive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... that this could be a jobless recovery. There is a risk that if market expectations of a weak recovery is correct, many Americans wanting to work would struggle to find one and ultimately become a drag on economic growth. The same risk was also clear ...

Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... welcoming the fall in the US dollar as a sign of better things to come should be taken with a grain of salt. That is if Americans can still afford salt once their currency goes into freefall.

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... and they remain 73 per cent in the red. In comparison, despite the recent precipitous drop on Wall Street last year, Americans who bought into US equities on the day the Nikkei was at its highest are still enjoying a handsome 189 per cent gain nearly ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... for sentiment and demand everywhere. But no! "It was the season of Darkness". The spin? The trade results show that Americans still have their wallets under lock and key. Why? Because the latest data show imports falling for the tenth consecutive month ...

Of bulls, bears and flatliners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... cent in June indicate that the green shoots have withered. Rising joblessness, along with eroded wealth, would prevent Americans from engaging in their favourite pastime - shopping. Not good. Also not good. Last quarter's rally on Wall Street was helped ...

Black or white - just beat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... Pop...and certainly not another Michael Jackson joke. This is about Wall Street doing a moonwalk to the latest update of Americans' personal income, spending and savings. The major indexes ended the last day of trading last week lower - well, just a ...