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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
The Australian share market is set to continue to fall today as concerns about the possibility of more European governments hitting serious debt problems sparked major falls on world markets overnight. At 0724 AEST the local September share price index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
The Australian share market was expected to open slightly lower today, despite a mildly positive performance by Wall Street overnight, but after commodities were mixed. At 0715 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was down eight points ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
Brace yourself people! We might be in for another rough one this week. Gauging from the S&P 500's 1.2 per cent fall on Friday last week, hang on to your hat Australia. This was reportedly triggered by massive falls in the share price of UniCredit -- ...

European authorities will blink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
It's got the euro in its hands. It's got the whole world in its hands. There's some semblance of relative calm on financial markets overnight. Wall Street reversed early losses and closed higher. European stocks still ended in the red but on lower negatives ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... GDP: minus 15.4 per cent Debt as a percentage of GDP: 127.1 per cent 10 February 2010 -- Among the three governments -- Spain (Aaa), Portugal (Aa2) and Greece (A2) -- whose public finances are currently the focus of much market speculation, only Greece ...

Rejoice for May has gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
A funny thing happened on the way to the financial markets last night. There were no significant changes to the landscape - but one could sense the smile on investors' faces if one cared to look. It's risk on one more time Virginia. Wall Street's up ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
Houston, it seems we've lost May. With two trading days to go this month - one for Wall Street because of the Memorial Day holiday in the US - "sell in May then go away" is in the bag - unless of course, there's a sudden whiff of euphoria, or perhaps ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open higher on Tuesday after Wall Street closed flat overnight while European and Asian markets generally were higher. Oil and metals rose. On the ASX 24 at 0717 AEST, the June share price index futures contract ...

Judgment Day bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
By the looks of it all, Harold Camping - the real prophet of doom - stood a better chance predicting a stock market crash this week than "Judgement Day" at 6PM (US time) on 21 May 2011. But you would have done well by your investments if you believed ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... led by a 1.25 per cent jump in French stocks. Say what? Has the sovereign debt crisis there been resolved? Au contraire, Spain (the big problem child) reportedly wasn't able to sell all the government bonds it wanted to sell even at higher yields. The ...