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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
The Australian share market is likely to decline after global equity and commodities markets declined overnight on weakening US economic data and Greece's escalating debt crisis. At 0746 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
I heart the RBA. Who wouldn't? OK, ok... most borrowers perhaps. But in the general scheme of things it's on top of the list on my Valentine's list. The minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's February Board meeting is set for outing today. The minutes ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading over the weekend, with Wall Streets' key indices higher, as generally were those in Europe. Precious metals and oil were lower. On the ASX 24 at 0649 AEDT, the December share price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overnight trade offshore. Wall Street indices were flat to marginally higher, whilst metals were higher, but oil was slightly lower. At 0739 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market has received a mixed lead from offshore markets. Wall Street closed higher and futures contract prices for copper and oil firmed, but gold and silver prices eased. At 0747 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
"It was an art and act I came to perfect. It was part of my armoury. I felt if my opponent didn't know what I was thinking then I was invincible." Bjorn Borg The Australian Open might be finished but yesterday we had the RBA mixing its play to win game ...

Australians as Asians

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
So that's why the RBA raised interest rates...again! Australia is an Asian country.The Age reports that "a Lowy Institute poll of Chinese public opinion on world affairs, to be released today, shows Australia is accepted as an Asian nation, with an ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Slow cooked. Is the Reserve Bank of Australia slowly boiling the Australian economy alive? I refer, of course, to the story of the 'boiling frog' - often used as an anecdote to describe the financial markets' failure to respond to significant modifications ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
Here we go, here we go, here we go. If everything continues to go the way it's going, the Australian dollar could very soon be trading one for one against the big one. My Bloomberg screen currently has the A$ fetching US$0.9208 -- it went as high as ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
"O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting..." Walt Whitman wrote this poem after US President Abraham Lincoln's assassination ...