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Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... lower as fresh concerns about political instability in Greece spooks markets around the world. European markets fell overnight after a presidential election was brought forward, which investors feared could threaten Greece's bailout program. Most sectors ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... EU/IMF benefactors - might win. This sent the Euro Stoxx-50 index down by 2.6% and the broader Stoxx-600 off by 2.2% overnight. Bad news, they say, come in threes. Here's the third for a trifecta. Speculations are building that the US Federal Reserve ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... 14.21, the "fear gauge" - the VIX index - is not even half the 31.06 max it reached back in mid-October, its 20.2% jump overnight reflects the sudden attack of the jitters in financial markets. Oil's doing the limbo (how low can you go?). Brent oil dropped ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... market strategist Stan Shamu says the market is lacking a catalyst to trade much higher. "The only major development from overnight trade was that commodities pulled back again, so some of the resource names are giving back the gains from yesterday," ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... energy and resource stocks a healthy boost, CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said. "But a drop in US markets overnight has given the rest of the market a negative lead so, broadly speaking, stocks outside the resource sector are weaker, including ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... in December 2011". And with this, the slide in oil prices became slipperier. Brent dropped 6.7% and WTI slid by 6.3% overnight, taking their 2014 year-to-date losses to 35% and 31%, respectively. Some OPEC cartelists were disappointed, some content ...

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... interest rates might not be so considerable anymore. Sure, sure there's the disappointing consumer confidence report out overnight. Consumer confidence dropped to 88.7 in November versus 94.5 in the previous month and expectations for a 96.5 print. But... ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... positive lead from Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 climbed 0.19 per cent and 0.2 per cent overnight, both reaching fresh record highs following positive economic data. But Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said ...

Original FoFA laws take immediate effect

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... Many in the industry have condemned the actions of the Senate, saying advisers may find themselves in breach of the law overnight. Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden said the disallowance would create a "legal quagmire", and cost ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... ran away with it. I refer to some (thankfully, not most today) financial headlines that connected Wall Street's dip overnight to the Fed's deflation concerns. The bone - "Many participants observed the committee should remain attentive to evidence of ...