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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... significance to currency traders due on Thursday. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release data on Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings (AWOTE) for the three months to May. The Australian dollar was expected to trade between 105.10 US ...

Digit says recession averted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... Tempered Concern About Recession" (Bloomberg). And financial markets reached this conclusion because? Because of that volatile weekly report that showed US jobless claims decreased by 7,000 to 395,000 in the week ended 6 August. This is good -- it's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... European markets also took their lead from a more positive mood prevailing on Wall Street following better-than-forecast weekly job claims. Fears about the world economic outlook and the risk that the eurozone debt crisis could engulf other members of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... crisis, after the two countries' borrowing costs surged in recent days. Meanwhile, the US Labor Department reported that weekly claims for unemployment benefits remained at a high 400,000 last week, with business and government layoffs persisting while ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... after a warning that countries such as Italy could now be threatened. Meanwhile, the US Labour Department reported that weekly claims for unemployment benefits remained at a high of 400,000 last week, raising fears of a double-dip recession. ANZ Banking ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... to 12,479.73. The Nasdaq composite rose 27.13, or 1 per cent, to 2,789.80. The late gains Friday trimmed the S&P 500's weekly losses to 2.1 per cent. The Dow average fell 1.4 per cent for the week, the Nasdaq 2.4 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... warning that now isn't the time to launch a new round of stimulus measures, comments that overshadowed a decline in US weekly jobless claims to the lowest point in three months. The prospect of a vote of confidence in the Italian senate on the government's ...

QE3 - yes, no, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... expectations of a decline to 415K and the lowest level since April. Point for no QE3. But if we're going to use this volatile weekly data to score QE3, we could have QE one week and tightening the next. The less volatile four-week moving average of claims ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... expectations for a drop to 420K. Who cares? You know my view about buying -- or selling -- based on this very volatile weekly stat. The House always win! The good news in this report is that the less 'hyper' four-week average of claims has reversed direction ...

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... "would have" bought. The five-day rally on Wall Street sent the S&P 500 up by 5.6 per cent for the week -- the biggest weekly jump since July 2009. Similarly, most other equity markets around the world finished with weekly gains. But if you think that ...