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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... 16.57 points, to 1,650.36. Leading European stock markets climbed while the euro edged lower against the US dollar as traders welcomed German investor sentiment data and digested corporate results. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading shares ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... Kong lost 1.42 per cent, or 331.41 points, to 22,989.81. Shanghai slipped 0.22 per cent, or 4.91 points, to 2,241.92 as traders digested new Chinese economic data for April including industrial output, which rose 9.3 per cent on-year, below market expectations. ...

Not strong enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... five-day record-breaking run. Even well-conditioned athletes have to pause for breathe sometime just like high frequency traders need an excuse to turn those paper profits into real dinero. They must be thanking their lucky stars that Philadelphia Fed ...

Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... prior week's revised reading of 362,000. LONDON - European stock markets mostly rose in the wake of recent strong gains as traders reacted to news of soaring Spanish unemployment and surprising British growth figures, while earnings updates from major ...

It's the headlines, you twit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... hard enough for humans to time the market, harder still to rely non-thinking computers to make the buy and sell calls. Traders relying on algorithms to buy or sell must have taken a big hit from the flash crash last night. Think of all those stop-loss ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after strong rises on international markets overnight as traders focused on corporate earnings and brushed aside weaker-than-expected economic data out of Germany and China. At 0744 AEST on Wednesday, the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... The Australian market looks set to open higher after gains on Wall Street and a mixed performance on European markets as traders balanced political progress in Italy, with the surprise re-election of President Giorgio Napolitano, with disappointing earnings ...

A week's walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... the Empire State manufacturing index and the NAHB confidence index dropped and disappointed. Tuesday: S&P 500 up 1.4% as traders forgot all about China and no, US is not slowing. No siree! Not with a 7.0% increase in housing starts that followed an even ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... chatter of this nature is probably less indicative of any belief in the gossip than of the general nervousness amongst traders, as the bleak macro backdrop combines with wild commodity swings, acts of terrorism and unravelling geopolitical situations ...