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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... points, or 0.62 per cent, to 4,511.8. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks closed marginally lower as budget talks continued in Washington. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 13.82 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 12,951.78 after spending most of the day ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... on Wall Street edged lower after a surprisingly weak manufacturing report heightened concern that fiscal deadlock in Washington is already hurting the economy. The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) index fell to 49.5 in November, below the 51.2 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... the last 15 minutes of trade on Friday to end mostly in the black, with little hard news to direct trade as talks in Washington over a fix to the fiscal cliff continued. After trading lower for most of the session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... of a meeting later in the day aimed at finalising a bailout deal for Greece, amid a simmering budgetary impasse in Washington. Tokyo rose 0.24 percent, or 22.14 points, to 9,388.94, Sydney gained 0.25 percent, or 11.2 points, to close at 4,424.2 but ...

Giving thanks to thanksgiving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... week before that - it's only the markets' sentiment that has changed. It's same old same old for the fiscal cliff. Washington's still in the midst of working on a compromise deal. Only the soundbytes have changed from concerns over Ben Bernanke's warning ...

Blame the G

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012

Fool me not again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... despite the current bout of palpitations in the financial markets because of the game of chickens again being played in Washington, America will eventually jump over the cliff. It's not fooling me a second time. This, I say because if you look at the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... The yen remained elevated after Barack Obama's re-election as US president stoked concerns of political gridlock in Washington with a "fiscal cliff" approaching that could tip the country back into recession. But Chinese data on Friday showing inflation ...

The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... reach" (he was talking about the looming cliff in the context of last July's compromise)... the only thing holding Washington back from a meaningful step toward reducing debt and modernizing government isn't any single policy dilemma, but rather the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... drama will unfold and that President Barack Obama's re-election has raised the spectre of a bitter fiscal stand-off in Washington. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies closed down by 0.27 per cent at 5,776.05 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 gave up 0.39 ...