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The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... would have been easy to put this down to the usual garden variety correction were it not for the 7.3% splat that befell the Nikkei. Perhaps, it still is...Japan just succumbed to the law of gravity with the news items of the day out on cyberspace providing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... slightly lower, little-affected by a sharp selloff in Asian and European markets led by the 7.3 per cent plunge of Japan's Nikkei 225 index. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 12.67 (0.08 per cent) to 15,294.50 on Thursday. The Dow rallied after opening ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... gains as the yen turned up against the dollar ahead of the Group of Seven (G7) meeting of finance chiefs. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 94.21 points to 14,191.48 while the Topix index of all first-section issues was down 1.05 per cent, or 12.51 ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... sentiment was also boosted by news that a new government had finally been formed in Italy after months of deadlock. Japan's Nikkei, which was closed on Monday for a holiday, was stuck in negative territory on Tuesday, however, as a stronger yen outweighed ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... away. Not that we did any better. Australia's May first performance didn't do any better - the All Ords fell. So did the Nikkei and the Shanghai Composite. Yes, Virginia, those nasty sprinkles started in our time zone. Never mind the interplay of global ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... economic data from the eurozone offset positive sentiment after the S&P 500 closed at another record high. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which was one of the few financial markets in Asia open because of a public holiday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... sentiment was also boosted by news that a new government had finally been formed in Italy after months of deadlock. Japan's Nikkei, which was closed on Monday for a holiday, was stuck in negative territory on Tuesday, however, as a stronger yen outweighed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... KONG - Asian shares mostly fell as fresh data showed Chinese manufacturing weakening further this month, while Japan's Nikkei succumbed to profit-taking and a pick-up in the yen. The latest figures from China add to growing concerns about the world's ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... Virginia, it's not about Wall Street this time...this time investors are back lovin' made-in-Japan stocks...lifting the Nikkei perhaps not higher than it's been lifted before...but it's getting there. The Dow and the S&P 500 were all the rage last month ...