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All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... likely to be followed by a strong rebound in the June quarter as the economic impacts of the disasters ease and reconstruction picks up." He has a point. The numbers are not as bad as they seemed. Browse through the National Accounts - go on - and you'll ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... notched up the additional gains even though Fletcher Building - a key beneficiary of the proposed Christchurch reconstruction - lost 7c of the 20c gain it retained on Monday after spiking to a three-year high of 928. Fletcher finished trading on Tuesday ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... cause a 0.5 per cent drag on growth -- the Australian economy is expected to rebound strongly later in the year on reconstruction and rebuilding. Not so for its counterparts. Despite growing momentum in the US economy, the Fed's still maintaining its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... possible the markets have priced in the worst - more unrest in the Arab world pushing up oil prices and the huge reconstruction cost after Japan's earthquake. The fall of the Portuguese government on Wednesday and the increasing likelihood Lisbon will ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... ahead, that's always good for us," Mr Sekely said. Wall Street closed higher overnight as the prospect of massive reconstruction efforts in Japan pushed some sectors higher, despite some poor US data on sales of new homes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... industrial and mining companies as traders eyed the knock-on affects of higher metal and commodity demand and Japanese reconstruction. The Dow was dragged upward by aluminum giant Alcoa, which added over three per cent, and manufacturing behemoth 3M ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... earthquake and tsunami (and nuclear explosions) in Japan - would be paid back in multiples once rebuilding and reconstruction get underway. Perhaps it's investors' growing faith in the global recovery. For instance, US economic data - save for housing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... largest economy is serious but the markets are uncertain about how long lasting will it be and whether Japan's huge reconstruction effort expected later in the year will spark a revival. Sentiment was already under pressure from violence in Libya and ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... to lives and businesses and the economy. Or you can see beyond these and anticipate the massive rebuilding and reconstruction that will surely follow. Japan rose from the ashes of World War2 to become the second biggest economy in the world. This tragedy ...