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Market Wrap early AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street showed a mixed performance and European stocks slid amid cautious trading on the eve of the US presidential election. At 0635 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... 184K last month from 128K in September and expectations for only a 120K gain. There were 30K less public sector jobs in October - also good for it reduces Uncle Sam's deficit bill. Even the unemployment rate's tick up to 7.9% from 7.8% is also good because ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fell following stronger-than-expected jobs figures and as caution grew ahead of the presidential election. At 0700 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... announcements. But look now - the indicators are beginning to turn... almost everywhere. China's official PMI increased to 50.2 in October - the first time its manufacturing expanded (above 50) in three months - from 49.8 in September. This is consistent ...

Market wrap Early AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... above 50 indicates expansion while anything below points to contraction. Separately, a survey by HSBC came in at 49.5 in October - from 47.9 in September - which, although still in contraction, represents another rise. The official PMI had contracted ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat after European equities fell despite a raft of largely positive company results, with trading volumes boosted by the resumption of activity in storm-struck New York. At 0630 AEDT on Thursday, the December ...

Investor confidence hits 14 year low

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
State Street's global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) has posted its biggest drop in 14 years. Global investor confidence on the index fell from a revised reading in September of 87.3, to 80.6. The plummet in global confidence stemmed from a steep drop ...

Sandy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq market shuttered last night - the first since September 11, 2001 -- as Hurricane Sandy batters the northeast coast of the United States. They will remain closed for a second day today. Thank goodness the warnings ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia's trading session had already called it off for the week when the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the better-than-expected scorecard for the economy. But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better ...

Fed decides not to decide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
"Stocks end lower after Fed decision." This was the title of a video from 'The Wall Street Journal' that encapsulates all the other headlines that answer the 'why' for the weak performance of those scripts on The Street last night. But what did the ...