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Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... its quantitative easing programme. And we all know, where there's meat... there's a barbecue. This is exactly what Wall Street did overnight - it partied from the get go, led by the Dow's 1.3% jump. US real GDP increased at annualised 3.5% in the third ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street rallied as data showed faster-than-estimated economic growth, fuelling speculation the economy is strong enough to withstand higher interest rates. At 0812 AEST on Friday, the December ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... would invest $US500 million ($A540.98 million) in Australia's Coca-Cola Amatil to help it expand in Indonesia. On Wall Street on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 31.44 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 16,974.31 points after the US Federal ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... now at 5.9% But whatever happened to the Fed worries revealed in the minutes of its September FOMC meeting? As the Wall Street Journal succinctly put it: "Several officials worried at a Sept. 16-17 policy meeting that disappointing growth in Europe ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following falls on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve confirmed it would end its asset-buying program. At 0808 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up two points at 5,431. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after Wall Street rose on upbeat US consumer confidence. The US consumer confidence index has leapt from 89.0 in September to 94.5 in October, giving US equities a solid boost overnight. The positive sentiment ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
It's a wrap! QE is. Looking at Wall Street's performance overnight - the Dow and the S&P 500 up more than 1.0%, the Nasdaq up nearly 2.0% (rounded) and the Russell 2000 up nearly 3.0% (rounded) - the men and women at the Fed must be patting each other's ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after strong performances on Wall Street as US company quarterly results began flowing in and investors awaited a key meeting of the Federal Reserve. At 0645 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... confidence fell for the sixth month in a row to a near two-year low in October, which weighed on global markets. On Wall Street, the broad-based S&P 500 dipped 0.15 per cent. CommSec market analyst Tom Piotrowski said the news out of Germany had contributed ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
The suspense is chillingly killing... you could almost taste it by just looking at Wall Street's performance last night. It was decidedly undecided. Two ups and two downs. The Dow and the Nasdaq both finished 0.1% on the up while the S&P 500 and the ...