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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... more ground, climbing sharply soon after it opened and retaining about half the gains seen in during an early afternoon spike. The benchmark NZX-50 index finished at 3,408.371 points, up 16.349, or 0.482 per cent, following a gain of 6.1 points on Tuesday ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... went boing over the past few weeks - reinforced our view that America just underwent a soft patch that resulted from the spike in energy and food prices and the disruption to supply-chains in the aftermath of Japan's 11 March disaster. Now we sit back ...

Bank stocks rise on Greek confidence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
Share markets rallied today as the Greek parliament passed the first of two austerity packages while violent protests continued against the deeply unpopular reforms. But economists and market commentators have warned that the austerity package and associated ...

Nobody wins against the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
The bad news just keep piling up don't they? And from the looks of them, they're everywhere. Let me take you to a bad news tour around the world Virginia, starting from our very own land DownUnder. If you're watching carefully, you'll notice that recent ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... me why US bond yields continue to head south? If the prospect of a US debt default is imminent, then you would see yields spike in the order of say, the 400 basis point jump in Greek bond yields we've seen in recent weeks. Instead, US 10-year bond yields ...

$14 billion looking for a home

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... Prabhu, portfolio manager and credit analyst for Perpetual, says the amount of bonds set to mature in June is the biggest spike for years. The next biggest maturity date is over two years away in August 2013 when $12 billion is set to mature. Prabhu ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
The Australian stock market is tipped to open lower on Wednesday, following flat to lower performances by markets overseas overnight, and falls in the prices of precious metals and oil. At 0703 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures ...

Derivatives sky high since SGX fall

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... Japanese natural disaster as well as the roll activity in the lead up to the quarterly benchmark futures expiries lead to a spike in trading activity. Other result highlights include the high number of Contracts for Difference (CFD) that were traded ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... stronger-than-expected Chinese first quarter growth was positive overall, promising sustained demand for the miners, but the spike in inflation pointed to higher interest rates as Beijing clamps down on prices. Higher inflation figures in the eurozone ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... short-term but " there will be a mild boost to demand from the rebuilding efforts as they get under way." Inflation will spike in the March quarter because "Production losses due to weather are temporarily raising prices for some agricultural produce... ...