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EOFYS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
"And now I'm fallin' Fallin' fast again..." -Fallin, Teri de Sario It had to happen today, didn't it? EOFY would not be a happy one for Australia given the ugly lead from Wall Street and European bourses while we were sleeping. SPI futures trading says ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Wednesday following strong negative leads from offshore overnight. Wall Street's key indices slumped on Tuesday, precious and base metals and oil were down, except gold which rose slightly, and European ...

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
International equity markets' reaction to the weekend's G-20 gabfest was to be expected. They were up a little. They were down a little. Like I wrote on this space yesterday, there was something for everyone - depending on which paragraph of the G-20 ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
It was another ho-hum moment on Wall Street overnight. The Dow went down less than 1 per cent, then up less than 1 per cent, then closed 0.1 per cent higher. The same goes for the S&P 500 index... well, almost. It went down less than 1 per cent, up ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
The Australian market has received flat to negative leads from overnight trading offshore. Wall Street's key indices were flat, but commodities were lower, as were European markets. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, however, the September ...

Moody's cries boo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
I though we've already settled this a long, long time ago. Greece is junk! But no! No! Bloomberg reports that the Dow erased its triple-digit gains overnight when Moody's cried boo. OMG! If we're dealing with a market that reacts this way, then it really ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
ow that's more like it! It feels good doesn't it? This may be the one we've been waiting for when something, somehow happens that short circuits the cycle of fear that had been feeding on itself for months now. Although, he didn't say much that the ...

Stimulate and die

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
They love him, they love him not. This is what the financial markets' two-day love-in with Big Ben Bernanke appears to be indicating -- loved one day, ignored the next. Yes Virginia, although there's nothing new between his comments he made at the Woodrow ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open weaker, after Wall Street closed at its lowest level in seven months during the offshore trading session. At 0740 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 37 points ...

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 ...