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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... giving stocks their third straight day of gains on Friday. The market was still down slightly for the week. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment index rose to 74.3 in May, above analysts' estimates of 70. Concerns about higher ...

May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... have been on high alert for retaliatory attacks after Obama confirmed Osama's demise. But back to May and going away. Reuters' monthly asset allocation poll - a "survey of leading investors in US, Britain, Japan and Continental Europe" - showed investors ...

May go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Uh-oh, this is the last day for equity investors to decide whether or not to "sell in May and go away". An article Reuters published on 27 April reminded me so. In it, Reuters wrote, "Jeffrey Hirsch, publisher of the Stock Trader's Almanac, offers some ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... manure might pile up in a National Zoo parking lot because workers can't ship it away for composting." And according to Reuters, "...the processing of some tax refunds and audits, as well as small business loans would be halted, and operations of the ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... financial institutions at the height of the GFC. Turns out that the US Treasury made a good investment out of that one. Reuters reported last night that two banks -- rumoured to be Sun Trust Banks and KeyCorp - is set to repay the US Treasury US$7.4 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... million securities changing hands for $3.1 million. Eastland was up 1.2 cents at 4.2 cents, after the company said Thomson Reuters had listed the company's ArTiMist as "one of the five most promising drugs to enter Phase III trials". National turnover ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... disruption to oil supplies in the Suez Canal saw Brent crude for May climbing to an intraday high of $US116.50, up $US1.60, Reuters reported. Mr Solar said the market was clearly worried and was waiting for further clarification on the implications of ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... still doubt this, look at the University of Michigan's consumer confidence measure too. Consumer are shopping. The Thomson Reuters same store sales index of 28 companies grew by 4.2 per cent in January beating expectations for a 2.7 per cent rise. And ...

Value Partners top Asia fund tables

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... Partners, the fund manager underpinning Sydney-based Premium China Fund, has once again scored top rankings in the Thomson Reuters Extel Surveys. The fifth annual survey results asked executives of several hundred firms including brokers, broking firm ...

Wrong answer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... read today's business story in theage.com.au "bravely" headlined "US stocks buoyed by China's inflation move " written by Reuters. This was what the age dot com copied (and printed) from Reuters as answer to the question "why did Wall Street gain overnight?" ...