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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after Wall Street soared to its highest point this year on Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke's comments that global recovery prospects appear good. At 0749 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... Exchange. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed stronger boosted by positive comments from the United States' central bank and a positive re-rating of Australia's banking sector. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index rose 92.8 points, or 2.14 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... fell 19.89, or one per cent, to 1973.16. LONDON - Europe's main stock 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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... weakening. Turnover was worth $NZ97.63 million ($A77.94 million). Investors paused to take stock on a day the New Zealand central bank left the official cash rate unaltered, leaving the local sharemarket little changed.

Loaded one-way bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
Final inning. Yes folks, this is the month's last inning. Will the end days of July mark the seventh moon of 2009 as the return of the bulls? Or will it mark when the bears built up the courage to mount a comeback? Normally I would have said, it doesn't ...

Get into corporate bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
High quality corporate bonds will rise and offer a fresh opportunity for Australian investors over the short to medium term, despite an expected surge in government debt issuance, said Aberdeen Asset Management. Aberdeen predicts Australian corporate ...

Get into corporate bonds: Aberdeen

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
High quality corporate bonds will rise and offer a unique opportunity for Australian investors over the short to medium term, despite an expected surge in government debt issuance, said Aberdeen Asset Management. Aberdeen predicts Australian corporate ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... optimism. It appears that the RBNZ is now paying the price for its delayed reaction to the global financial crisis. The central bank first reduced interest rates in July 2008 - and only by a token 25 bps - from 8.25 per cent to 8 per cent and after real ...

Second half jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
Have the green shoots caught the swine flu? It certainly looks that way as 2009 crossed over from the first half to the second. What has happened on the way to the second half? Suddenly, it seems, investors have grown tired of watching and waiting for ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
If it were not so serious, I would think that Wall Street's overnight fall was in commiseration to Michael's memorial. Have the green shoots withered and died and are now being buried alongside MJ? The S&P 500 fell by two 2 per cent, the Dow was off ...