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Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street. At 0653 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up seven points at 5,596. In the US stocks gained helped by a wave of solid US economic data. Locally ...

Wonderully dreadful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
It's a wonderful set of numbers. Well...errr, it depends.A It depends whether you're an Abbott supporter or anti-Rudd crusader.A Whoops!A That means the same thing. Nah! That's not a Freudian slip.A I'm still deciding whether to go with the Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... (0.67 per cent) to 1,372.78, while the tech-rich Nasdaq surged 32.56 (1.12 per cent) to 2,942.60. The Fed's Beige Book report said that "overall economic activity continued to expand at a modest to moderate pace in June and early July," offering reassurance ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... of the central bank's districts showed overall activity "generally continued to expand" since April, but the Beige Book report cited trouble spots in the US east and midwest, where industrial growth and business optimism is flagging. Energy stocks were ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... equities -closed higher overnight? Strange. I can only surmise that because the bond market is looking at the same Beige Book report but instead saw the adjective "moderate" in the Fed's description of the improvement in its 12 districts. Also, there's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... cent, to 3,828.41 points. TOKYO - Japanese stocks fell, pressured by a strong yen and the US Federal Reserve's Beige Book report suggesting a slow recovery in the world's biggest economy. Investors also remain jittery over Greece's debt woes. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... become "cautiously positive" with conditions stabilising from the deep recession, the Federal Reserve said in its Beige Book report on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 49.88 points, 0.53 per cent, to 9547.22. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... turning up roses. The Dow and the S&P 500 rose by 1.3 per cent overnight following the US Federal Reserve's Beige Book report that showed five of the Fed's 12 district banks 'noted a moderation in the pace of decline' in economic activity. This information ...

Inflation Report: Japan's Turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... year-on-year growth rate in the national core CPI is expected to increase to zero. In the US, the Federal Reserve's Beige Book report -- an anecdotal summary of regional conditions in the 12 US districts -- reported that two-thirds of all districts were ...
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