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Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... experienced a speculative bubble and would now continue to deflate -- especially considering that Grexit and China's stock market crash fears have not been able to stop gold's deceleration. Or perhaps we've come full circle to circa late-1990s when central ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after gains on US and European markets after Greece made massive loan repayments to creditors and reopened its banks. At 0814 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... expectations. Much less succumb to the Chicken Little headline, "China hurtles towards its own version of the 1929 stock market crash... and Great Depression" (AFR) But nah, China has to slow. It has to or the doom and gloom predicted for this land girt ...

Still in the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... one-day and high jumped 5.8% the next. OlA(C)! OlA(C)! OlA(C)! Though this is to be expected considering that China's stock market is practically frozen - trading in more than half of stocks listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges have been halted ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower, after Wall Street rose following strong gains in Asian and European equity markets. At 0808 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was down 21 points at 5,387. In local economic ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... and the 2% fall in the ASX 200 index. The "fear" of contagion springs from the extrapolation that should China's stock market "mayhem" persist the attendant negative wealth effect and loss of confidence would bring the economy a-tumbling down. There ...

Australian stocks open lower on China concerns

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... Australian share market has opened lower after sharp falls in commodity prices on concern about China's turbulent stock market. Iron ore fell 4.6 per cent to $49.70 US a tonne overnight, close to April's 10-year low of $46.70. Nickel fell nine per cent ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... they been dropping. And they've been dropping because of that other spook du' jour - the fall and fall of China's stock market. Greece have been dominating the headlines of late. As it should. "Grexit," "Graccident" and lately, "Grimbo" sounds and reads ...

Australian shares up on ease over Greece

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
The Australian share market has risen well over one per cent following offshore markets' tempered reaction to Greece's rejection of bailout terms. US and European stock markets dipped slightly overnight, but not as much as feared in the wake of Sunday's ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower with European markets slipping ahead of Greece's referendum on its bailout and future in the eurozone. At 0810 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was down seven points at 5,480. ...