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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... downgrade of eight microchip companies, including Intel and Texas Instruments, kept the market jittery. European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet's warning that "it is too early to declare the (financial) crisis over" also made investors nervous ...

Mickey money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
Walt Disney lives up to its reputation - that of cheering up depression. But is Wall Street now playing with Mickey Mouse Money? Walt Disney, with a little help from its friends - JC Penney and Abercrombie & Fitch Co -brightened Wall Street's sombre ...

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... re-assure investors that borrowing rates would remain practically free for an "extended period." As if? Yes, as if the US central bank has any choice. Forget market consensus that the fed funds rate will start rising by August next year. Not with 10.2 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... reports from companies including French bank Credit Agricole SA, encouraging economic data and dovish comments from central bank officials - including Bank of England governor Mervyn King - helped fuel another bout of buying in stock markets. London's ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... recorded in the previous month. The fragility of the Eurozone's economic outlook is the main reason behind the European Central Bank's (ECB) decision to keep interest rates at a low 1.0 per cent - where they have been since May 2009 - when its Governing ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
There's a new twist in the tale of what we thought to be the ended saga of the GFC. The US equity market's - and by extension most other stock market's - performance over the past few weeks perfectly underscored what I've been trying to convey in my ...

December 25bps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
While Wall Street looks far, far ahead on when its central bank would announce its first interest rate hike, Australians have only three weeks to go before they might see another one. With only a fortnight and a week to go, speculation have been ebbing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... markets made modest gains on Thursday, powered by positive US employment data and upbeat comments from the European Central Bank on eurozone growth prospects. In London, the FTSE 100 index rose 17.75 points, or 0.35 per cent, to close at 5,125.64. FRANKFURT ...

Stuck at zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... to put upward pressure in these parameters. A Bloomberg survey shows that financial markets do not expect the US central bank to move interest rates until August next year. Perhaps... Perhaps by that time the US economy has sufficiently gathered enough ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... extra liquidity. The market had risen in anticipation of the Fed announcement and then saw choppy action after the central bank offered no surprises in its outlook or monetary policy. The policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), headed by Fed ...