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Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has improved a little from its poor start but is still trading lower, after a sharp fall on markets in the United States and Europe overnight. The market slide was generated partly by an International Monetary Fund report ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
The Australian share market is flat with gains among the major miners offset by the major banks. Better commodity prices and excitement about a possible merger between Rio Tinto and Glencore Xstrata had bolstered resource stocks, IG Markets market strategist ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following solid gains on Wall Street as a strong housing report helped equities regain ground. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 23 points at 5,402. Locally ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Have dip... will buy. That's last week's story on Wall Street - the big dip on Thursday followed by a rebound the next day - and only because I got tired (as you too probably have) of hearing of what's developing to be Wall Street's 2014 anthem - Chumbawamba's ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... the mortgage buffer by borrowers (based on present interest rates) is around two years' worth of repayments. Perhaps Gov Glen's jawbone alone - by putting the likelihood of 'macroprudential measures' out there if property doesn't behave - would be enough ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following solid gains on Wall Street as a strong housing report helped equities regain ground. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 23 points at 5,402. Locally ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Just a few percentage points are all it took for the Australian equity market to get into what the financial presses call the "Beijing bounce". Two percentage points above the previous month and five percentage points more than consensus expectations ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Fifteen point zero nine points or just a little over 0.28%. This is all the All Ordinaries index need to slip by today to take it back to square one - where it was at the start of 2014. Given the lead from offshore markets overnight - the S&P 500 dropped ...