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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... 2011. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed mostly lower, snapping a two-day winning streak, as fresh concerns over Ukraine came to the fore and traders cashed in profits from the recent rally. Wall Street followed the European markets lower at ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... investors reacted to company updates and regional economic data, a day after indices had slid on China slowdown concerns and Ukraine tensions. Trade was also boosted by talk from the European Central Bank that looser monetary policy could be in the offing. ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following Wall Street's fall on profit taking and caution over the Ukraine crisis. At 0645 AEDT on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down 21 points at 5,307. Locally, no major economic ...

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
While Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine and re-join Mother Russia - and the tit for tat sanctions between the US and Europe and Moscow - and speculation over the faster- and sooner-than-predicted US Federal Reserve hike in interest rates hogged most ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... Australian share market has opened higher following a solid lead from markets in the United States and easing concern over Ukraine. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the Australian bourse had opened in a veritable sea of green. "There's ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... reversible to avoid the "Iron Curtain" from being raised back up. Vladimir could see the whites in 'em "infidels" eyes. So has Ukraine. It knows that Putin's got the US and Europe by the cojones. Latest news out is that Ukraine is pulling its soldiers ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... leads. US stocks moved higher as Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments that he had no designs on a larger break-up of Ukraine eased investor tensions. But there was no conviction among local traders after the market's recent positive run, and ongoing ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... Virginia. Some of the headlines made me do it. The headlines that say Wall Street's up because of easing tensions in the Ukraine and... "improving outlook for the biggest economy" (you know who you are). While I can swallow the Ukraine rationale for ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... Morgans senior private client adviser Bill Chatterton said the region's overwhelming vote in favour of splitting from Ukraine and becoming part of Russia continued to be a major source of diplomatic tension but it was looking less likely the situation ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... formally requested Moscow annex the area and Russian President Vladimir Putin officially recognized the Crimean region of Ukraine as a sovereign independent state following the "will of the people."" This, notwithstanding Obama's warning that, "If Russia ...