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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... market on Monday closed at its highest level since May, as investors were encouraged by separate moves to stimulate the US economy and keep the bailout of the debt-ridden euro zone on track. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 12.5 points, or 0.28 per ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... open higher, continuing last week's positive theme after the Federal Reserve announced fresh measures to stimulate the US economy. At 0753 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 4,412. In economic news on ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... stock markets mostly fell as dealers waited to see whether the Federal Reserve would decide measures to stimulate the US economy at a monetary policy meeting. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index bucked the trend to close up 0.65 per cent at 5,819.92 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... meeting, finishing Thursday (US time), will result in fresh measures, or quantitative easing, to stimulate the sluggish US economy. In local economic news on Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia is due to release its bulletin for the September 2012 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... opens a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday (US time) amid expectations it will take fresh action to help the sluggish US economy. Both European and US stocks closed mostly higher on Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at 13,323.36, up ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... and the US Federal Reserve will commence its 2-day FOMC meeting to decide on the best course of policy action for the US economy later today. All bets are in and after yesterday's attack of the nerves, it appears that financial markets are betting that ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... creating a negative feedback loop. News out yesterday underlines the monster that a recessionary Europe and a limping US economy have spawned. China's trade figures disappointed. Exports rose by only 2.7% in the year to August - less than already low ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... negative mindset. A US report showed a third straight monthly contraction in the manufacturing sector, indicating that the US economy was still sluggish. The Institute for Supply Management index of manufacturing activity stood at 49.6 per cent in August ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... that the ink has dried on our BFF Ben's speech at the hole and given recent stats which, on balance, show that the US economy is not deteriorating but instead improving (however mildly), we aren't at that "if it becomes necessary" point that would trigger ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... economists' estimate would bring the unemployment rate down - from 405K last year. So all good? Errr... perhaps, if the US economy is operating in a vacuum. But it ain't. The HSBC flash manufacturing PMI for China fell to a nine-month low of 47.8 in ...