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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... sharemarket is expected to open significantly higher after a strong surge on Wall Street sparked by a brighter economic outlook from the Federal Reserve. At 0730 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 72 points ...

Select hires advisory panel

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... panel. The members of the investment advisory panel will provide inform the investment committee across the macro economic outlook, alternative investments, property, hedge funds, traditional assets and fixed interest. "The combined expertise and extensive ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... US Treasury Timmy Geithner and Ben Bernanke. And what happened when the OECD and the IMF raised their global economic outlook? Ignored. For four straight weeks Wall Street - and consequently the rest of the world - went in reverse. Obama et al failed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... for a seventh straight session, closing at their lowest level in almost seven weeks as worries grew about the economic outlook and the strength of the yen. The benchmark Nikkei-225 index dropped 129.69 points, or 1.38 per cent, to 9,291.06, the weakest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... 3,766.0 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street shares ended little changed on Wednesday with investors cautious about the economic outlook at the kickoff of the corporate earnings season. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 14.81 points, or 0.18 per cent ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... cent shrinkage in America's economy. Japanese monetary and fiscal authorities may have recently lifted their economic outlook for the economy, but Japan's economic situation remains dire. Japanese exports remain depressed - hampered by weak growth in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... higher on Friday, with sentiment more positive after better-than-expected US data helped ease concerns over the economic outlook. The London FTSE 100 index added 65.07 points, or 1.52 per cent, to 4,345.93 points. FRANKFURT - The Dax gained 1.98 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... cent, to a close of 923.72. LONDON - European stock markets plunged after G8 finance ministers warned that the economic outlook remained risky and uncertain despite some signs of the global crisis bottoming out. The London FTSE 100 index lost 115.94 ...

Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... their own drum? For how could Wall Street have exactly opposite reactions to almost similar indications on the economic outlook? Wall Streeters reacted negatively to the mixed bag of reports released yesterday - where convincing arguments for any case ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Danger! No. I am not talking about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new World Economic Outlook report detailing how its forecasters changed their mind (again!) and now think that global growth would contract by 1.3 ...