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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fell following mixed US housing data, a lacklustre reading on inflation and indications the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to raise interest rates. At 0900 AEDT on Thursday, the March share ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... now, Goldilocks is back in town in Uncle Sam country. Data out last night show good news on the housing front. Overall US housing starts soared by 15.7% to an annualised 1.093 million units - more than the expected 0.963 mil - following a 4.0% decline ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index rose 19.20 (0.43 per cent) to 4,527.51. Fresh US economic data showed a pickup in US housing starts after two slower months, an encouraging sign for the construction sector, and also tepid inflation, with consumer prices ...

Dip-buying pays

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... in US new home sales in June) and down by 7.3% on the year. Just one month's number or a digit that marks that the US housing market has peaked? Too (or two), there's the nagging question of valuation - stretched, just right or still Jenny Hawkins attractive. ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... are). While I can swallow the Ukraine rationale for Wall Street's sigh of relief, it looks like a stretch linking the US housing starts data (released overnight) to "improving outlook for the biggest economy" and therefore, buys on Wall Street. Certainly ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... what is disappointing, what is negative is "likely affected by the weather". Blame the extreme cold for the drop in US housing in January - housing starts plunged by 16.0% while existing home sales fell by 5.1%. And while you're at it curse the weather ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... KONG - Asian markets were mixed, with Tokyo stocks dropping after the previous session's surge, as investors awaited US housing data and minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting. Tokyo lost 0.52 per cent, or 76.71 points, to 14,766.53, Seoul shed ...

Magellan Global returned 48.7% in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... investment themes such as emerging market consumption growth, rising US interest rates, a move to a cashless society and US housing. Douglass also acknowledged a highly successful year for the investment team: "I normally detail investment mistakes that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
... Composite Index declined 21.11 (0.50 per cent) to 4,197.58. US industrial output rose 0.3 per cent in December, while US housing starts fell almost 10 per cent from a five-year high. Corporate earnings were uneven, with Intel missing expectations, Morgan ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... added 16.9 points, or 0.32 per cent, to 5,352.8. NEW YORK - US stocks closed little changed as investors weigh a weak US housing market report and a breakthrough deal between Iran and major powers over its controversial nuclear program. At the closing ...