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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
The Australian stock market is set for a big fall at the open, after Wall Street slumped more than three per cent overnight on Friday, and the price of benchmark commodities contracts such as oil, silver and copper closed weaker. At 0725 AEST on the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
Australian shares are set for a strong opening after Wall Street posted its third largest gain of 2010 as better-than-expected home sales figures boosted optimism towards the US economy. At 0731 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price ...

America's Eyjafjallajokull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
While Eyjafjallajokull continues to spew ash, there may be a heavier fall-out when Goldman Sach's volcano explodes. Wall Street rose last night as companies reported better than expected earnings results. And guess which one stood out? Goldman Sachs! ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
"Efxaristo para poli!" That's Greek for thank you very much. What in the world could possibly make European Central Bank President (ECB) Jean-Claude Trichet abandoned the summer sunshine in Sydney - and the company of the 23 other central representatives ...

Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
It's still the economy stupid! Wall Street's attention had been diverted from watching and dissecting every piece of economic news to listening to words that comes out of politicians' mouths. Wall Street had been on edged ever since Obama and the Democrats ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... the two aren't mutually exclusive. One begot the other. The Republican's coup in Massachusetts - considered a very safe Democrat stronghold - might have become too loud for US President Obama not to hear. US taxpayers are angry. Furious that their taxes ...

ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Going nowhere fast. This is what the Dow did over the past two days. The Dow Jones Industrial Index dropped 122 points - the biggest since mid-December - after rallying by 116 points the day before. The Dow closed at a 15-month high on speculation that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US and European stocks and commodity prices gained overnight. At 0650 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 33 points higher at 4,876. In economics news ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
The US House of Representatives has given government regulators more power to clamp down on "too big to fail" firms that threaten economic instability. Voters have given the green light to a bill to rein in firms seen as "too big to fail", according ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...