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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... cent) to 1,977.65, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index declined 34.40 (0.77 per cent) to 4,451.53. Some market watchers expressed nervousness at the latest surge in equity prices that last week lifted the Dow above 17,000 for the first time. Nobel ...

Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... the uncertainty over the impact of the lifting of the consumption tax from 5% to 8% on 1 April 2014. Long-time Japan watchers would remember what happened back in 1997 when Japan last raised the consumption tax from 3% to 5%. It may or may not have been ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... conclude Wednesday (US time) with a statement and news conference with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Most market watchers expect the Fed to scale back the Fed's $US85 billion-per-month bond-buying program. The market expects the Fed to reduce ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... 1.1 per cent pace, while imports grew more slowly than originally estimated, the department said. In addition, market watchers have been calmed by an apparent shift from the US, Britain and France in the timing of any military strike against Syria in ...

Delay of execution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... federal debt ceiling limit is looming this fall." "Taken together, the developments have eroded the conviction of most Fed watchers that the U.S. central bank would start backing off its $85-billion-a-month bond buying program, known as quantitative ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... mixed, as investors kept their positions amid heightening concerns of yet another Greek bailout, dealers say. Market watchers also digested lower-than-expected economic growth in Japan. London's FTSE 100 index slid 0.14 per cent to end Monday at 6,574.34 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... Transurban Group is expected to post third quarter traffic numbers. In Australia, the market on Tuesday shot up in what market watchers hope is a sign investors are over their jitters caused by the US flagging a cut to its stimulus program. The market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... Europe's main stock markets rebounded to close markedly higher, boosted by better-than-expected US data and what market watchers interpreted as indications of continued central bank support. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended the day 1.62 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... on Monday for the Memorial Day holiday. LONDON - Europe's stock markets closed on a positive note on Monday as market watchers said investors focused on profit-taking as both the London and New York markets were closed for holidays. In Frankfurt, the ...

Faith in monetary policy spawns new investment theme

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... focused, so specialised and so data point driven that they're losing the forest for the trees where I see many more forest watchers here," Wood said.