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Markets poised on knife-edge: Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... Quantitative Easing is removed. "A scale back in the Federal Reserve's support could be as early as spring this year, not autumn next year."

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... could go haywire" if the US$16,400,000,000,000 is not lifted. You better believe it. For we've been here before. Remember autumn 2011? The S&P 500 index dropped by 17.3% from July to August of that year due to the impasse on the budget ceiling and Standard ...

Thrilla in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... 2012. This constitutes a downward revision of 0.6 pp in the EU and 0.8 percentage points in the euro area compared to the autumn forecast of 10 November 2011. Looking at individual Member States, growth divergence remains pronounced. In 2012, GDP growth ...

Autumn Angst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... and if you take a really considered inspection of the globe, it's now only Europe that's experiencing what I call the "Autumn Angst" (you read it here first folks). Growth in China and the rest of the BRICs and emerging markets remain strong, thank you ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... for a holiday, tumbled 2.88 per cent, or 219.20 points, to end at 7,391.37. Hong Kong and Seoul were closed for the mid-autumn public holidays. Singapore fell 0.52 per cent, 14.21 points, to close at 2,729.37. WELLINGTON - Wellington added 0.66 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... earthquake, with Tokyo ending down 1.72 per cent and Hong Kong down 1.55 per cent, although the yen stabilised after an initial autumn. Tokyo's Nikkei ended 179.95 points lower at 10,254.43, Hong Kong dropped 365.11 points to 23,249.78 and the Shanghai ...

Market Wrap - Midday

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... record-high gold prices. The Shanghai Composite Index had returned to trading after a three-day close last week for the Mid-Autumn Festival, she said. At midday, Ms Chan said the financial sector was leading the market upwards, while gold stocks and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... first meeting of the bipartisan, 10-member panel, which is investigating the near collapse of the financial system in the autumn of 2008. While the executives agreed that banks' actions contributed to the crisis that paralysed the credit markets and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... companies that fared best in July were those that signalled they were patching up their businesses after a terrible winter and autumn. Economic reports are starting to support traders' bets. The government reported on Friday that the economy shrank at ...

Pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... backdrop of easing deterioration and better than expected economic and financial data. One falling leaf does not make an autumn. Economic reports out of the US last night were indeed bad and gave the market reason to question whether the 'green shoots' ...