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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket is likely to open lower on Friday after US equities slumped on a surprise drop in home sales, and commodity prices also declined overnight. At 0650 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket is likely to open lower on Thursday after US equities and commodity prices declined overnight. At 0746 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was down 28 points at 4719. In economic news ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... in the red. In comparison, despite the recent precipitous drop on Wall Street last year, Americans who bought into US equities on the day the Nikkei was at its highest are still enjoying a handsome 189 per cent gain nearly twenty years later. This is ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
The Australian share market is expected to fall after US equities declined on a report that showed more people lost their jobs than expected. At 0743 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 17 points lower at ...

September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... S&P 500 suffered the steepest two-month plunge in 21 years." Still unconvinced? Bloomberg adds its data show that US equities lose the most in the month of September -- with the S&P 500 index falling by 1.3 per cent on average since 1928. The index fell ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket has received a weak lead from US equities, which dipped on profit-taking after a four-week rally. Lower oil and metals prices are expected to weigh on the local bourse, too. At 0717 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower on Friday, after US equities declined on a rise in people continuing to claim unemployment benefits and lacklustre sales figures from major retailers. Oil and metals also were lower. At 0714 AEST ...

Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... round 2. Cling! Cling! With the economic environment still challenging at best and recovery in a galaxy far, far away US equities - and by extension, equities everywhere else - would be hard pressed to justify let along sustain the strong gains of the ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... presented another buying opportunity - a better entry point - for those who refused to cross over to the dark side. US equities closed flat but commodity prices - an indicator of global growth -- resumed their rally. Much hullabaloo had been made of ...

HNWs to buy Aus equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
Australian High Net Worth (HNW) investors, or those with more than $1 million of investable assets, are more likely to put fresh funds into Australian equities and cash-like investments over the next 12 months than in any other asset classes, a survey ...