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Second best month of the year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... not too late to solve" the European sovereign debt dilemma. And US consumers look to be turning jolly too. The Thomson Reuters/Uni of Michigan consumer sentiment index rose to 64.2 in early November - the highest since June - against 60.9 in October ...

Italy's bond market collapse puts US back in favour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... US treasuries, resulting in Italian bond yields soaring and US bond yields contracting. Responding to the money shifts, Reuters has reported US government bond prices gaining ground as investors flee the Italian market, the third biggest bond market ...

Legg Mason appoints Senior Research Analyst

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... accounting. His most recent position was infrastructure analyst with Austock. In 2010 Chambers was rated 2nd in Thomson Reuters' 'StarMine Analyst Awards' for Transport Infrastructure Earnings Accuracy. Prior to Austock, Andrew was associate director ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... being too big to bail worries you, you'll worry some more when you read, "EFSF limps over the line, books "over EUR3bn"" (Reuters). Yes folks, this is the rescue fund targeted to have a a,-1 trillion arsenal as "first loss" insurer of Italian and Spanish ...

US unlikely to follow EU short selling ban

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... week, "Never say never, but it is hard for me to imagine the SEC ever doing a ban on short-selling again," reported the Reuters.

Good news, bad headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... That was just the headline - it's meant to catch your attention. That's why Bloomberg's headline caught my eyes and not Reuters' "China economic growth eases to 9.1 percent" - it might be a lame headline, but it is factual. Yes Virginia, that is the ...

Happily dreaming of the end

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011

Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... to contain the region's sovereign-debt crisis," prints Bloomberg. "European stocks boosted by debt crisis hopes," added Reuters And here's what BusinessDay had to say, "European shares jumped on Tuesday to make their largest percentage gain since May ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... $US45.10 at $US1,781.40 an ounce. Trading volume was about 10 per cent above this week's average turnover, preliminary Reuters data showed. Silver fell 2.2 per cent at $US39.77 an ounce. On charts, gold should find support at $US1,702, a recent low reached ...

Find me that silver bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... rate rose to 15.1% last year from 14.3% in 2009 and the median household income dropped by 2.3%. Wait till they read the Reuters report that around 82% of Uncle Sam's children plan to spend less this holiday season compared with last year. Is it any ...