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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... fell sharply on Tuesday on renewed doubts about the strength of the global recovery, with banks hit by a major shakeup in Britain and another big loss at Swiss giant UBS. But analysts said some of the losses were offset late in the trading day after ...

Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... Sterling. The American dollar replaced the British pound in the 1930s as the world's major reserve currency following Britain's fall from the globe's biggest lender to a borrower. Back then America was a major international creditor. Now it's one of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... Stocks also got a boost from a better-than-expected profit report from Dutch company Royal Philips Electronics, which sent Britain's leading stock indicator to its highest level in a year. Trading on Monday was light as much of the US observed the Columbus ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... increasing risk, not reducing it. With the US budget deficit forecast to 13.5 per cent of GDP this year - second only to Britain's 14.4 per cent and higher than Iceland and Ireland's 13.0 per cent - the big dollar will continue to shrink. If the fall ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... markets perked up as the head of the European Central Bank voiced confidence about the prospects of an economic recovery and Britain pumped liquidity into its economy. On the back of more positive company earnings and unchanged record-low interest rate ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... We've already seen China's GDP jump to 7.9 per cent in the second quarter from 6.1 per cent in the first. We know that Britain's real GDP improved markedly to a contraction of only 0.8 per cent in the second quarter from -2.4 per cent in the first. And ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... with a 176 jump in US bond yields and 167 on gilts. The eye of the global financial crisis may be centred in America and Britain one of the countries hit most hard by the financial fall-out, but statistics show that it is the Japanese economy that has ...

Not a happy EOFYS on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... financial year sale). The Dow and the S&P 500 closed short of one per cent last night. Share prices in the Eurozone and in Britain ended a bit over a per cent lower. Big deal. Wall Street still produced the best quarterly performance in more than a decade. ...

HSBC appoints Australia CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... too fast. Investor sentiment was also dented by a warning from ratings agency Standard & Poor's that it may downgrade Britain's debt ratings. Wall St equities finished lower, precious metals were higher, but copper and oil also both were lower. At 0723 ...