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Big fall one day, up and away the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014

In praise of the gloom and doomers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street closed mostly higher following a surprisingly weak US jobs report. At 0645 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,286. The monthly US Labor ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... certainty, and made for a lacklustre end to the week on bond markets. "Expectations that the Fed could make an announcement to taper when it meets this week have lifted in recent weeks, although the consensus view remains that the Fed will begin in March," ...

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... provided buying opportunities to those that kept their faith on the Fed...and its incredible printing machine. That was until taper talks started to surface around mid-year. Speculation that the Fed would start unwinding its asset purchase programme ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... flowed through to the local market. She said US traders were preparing for the possibility the Federal Reserve will start to taper its stimulus program as early as next week. But, she said, the Australian market had already sold off significantly in ...

Developed economies to outshine emerging world in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
The interconnectedness which has played into the hands of emerging market economies in recent years is on the verge of shifting the balance the other way, according to a report by economists at Principal Global Investors. In the paper the investment ...

China's still going but will it go slow-er?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... December share price index futures contract was down 36 points at 5,111. St Louis Fed President James Bullard said "a small taper" of the bank's $US85 billion-a-month bond-buying scheme could be on the cards at the central bank's December 17-18 policy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... 6.23 (0.15 per cent) at 4,068.75. James Bullard, the president of the Fed's St Louis branch, said in a speech that "a small taper" of the $US85 billion-a-month asset-purchase program might be a possibility as Fed policy makers wrestle with how to respond ...