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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... Federal Reserve to kick-start its economy while G20 leaders pledged to "restore confidence" in world finances. European heads at the G20 summit in Mexico also vowed to begin looking at a region-wide banking union as they attempted to soothe investor ...

No random walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... ratings 14 June: Up 1.1% on rumours that central banks are preparing coordinated action Yes, I know, you're scratching your heads too. It's no longer a random walk on Wall Street. Nobody and I mean nobody's talking about economic or market fundamentals ...

Eurozone to craft a reforms roadmap

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
The heads of four key European institutions are hammering out a 'masterplan' to lead the eurozone out of its crisis, according to recent reports. European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, European Union president Herman Van Rompuy, EU Commission head ...

Investors missing the eurozone silver lining

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... stream of bad news flowing out of the eurozone, investors might not be looking for the silver lining, said senior investment heads at Franklin Templeton. "From a bottom-up standpoint, we believe significant investment opportunities still exist in Europe ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... eye-grabbing news about sackings, retrenchments and job losses here, there and everywhere, there are jobs a-plenty with some 15,500 heads added to payrolls last month. Mind you, this followed a 37.6K surge in March. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.9% ...

Missed the bottom?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... word "prudent" as we now know is the Chinese translation for "stimulative". We also know that what Wen wants, Wen gets - or heads will roll. And as far as China goes, Reuters reports that it now has a direct line to the US bond auction system. It is ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... that brought the world the story of the "Sword of Damocles" is itself now that very sword dangling precariously above the heads of world financial markets. Any moment now. Events in Greece over the past few days have jacked up investor fears that soon ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... flop in sentiment seen over the past few days. For last night we got news that US unemployment claims came in a thousand heads better than expected. Suddenly those worrying about the weakening American labour market are no longer worried. All because ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... hiring to increase production. The negative - businesses have increased staffing levels more than required and so expect heads to roll going forward. I don't know. The American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) latest survey found exactly this ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012