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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street gains on optimism the looming "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax rises and spending cuts threatening the US with recession can be avoided. At 0643 AEDT on Thursday, the December share ...

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
So what else is new? Up one day, down the next. Optimism that US will jump over the cliff one day, plunge into it the next. Hopeful that Greece would get another euro cent dropped into its begging bowl one day (and from a broader perspective the euro ...

Giving thanks to thanksgiving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... with cranberry sauce and downed with a bottle (or four) of cold Budweisers that turned Wall Street's mood into one of optimism last week. The S&P 500 index ended the last day of the trading week as it began - on the up and up - for a total weekly tally ...

A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... meeting and an extra-ordinary meeting; and Drillsearch has its AGM. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed firmer amid optimism about the US tackling its deficit problems but underperformed offshore leads out of America and Europe. At the close ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... local bourse - was up 1.1 per cent. Wall Street closed firmer as US markets cheered upbeat housing data and expressed optimism legislators would reach an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff. The Dow gained 1.65 per cent, the S&P500 advanced 1.99 per ...

Fed money on the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
It's a good day in the markets overnight and this is because... Let me hear you say it... optimism on the fiscal cliff. Yes, that's it. Tomorrow, we'll just change the word 'optimism' to 'pessimism' should the tape tell a tale of woe. I could stop here ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... The euro climbed to $US1.2812 from $US1.2741 late in New York on Friday. HONG KONG - Mot Asian markets closed higher on optimism US politicians will be able to agree a deal to avert a "fiscal cliff" that would tip the world's biggest economy back into ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... lead from the close of the US session," he said. "We did see a pretty strong recovery in the US after there was some optimism around US fiscal cliff negotiations between the Republicans and the Democrats." The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up ...

Market wrap Early AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... Data showed China's manufacturing activity expanded in October for the first time in three months, adding to renewed optimism that the world's No.2 economy is beginning to awake from its recent slumber. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) stood at 50.2 ...