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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... claims fell last week but not as much as anticipated. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's manufacturing index for the mid-Atlantic region unexpectedly plunged into negative territory, at -6.3 in February from 9.4 in January. LONDON - Europe's main stock ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
... (ECB) to cut its main interest rate to an all-time low of 0.25 per cent. Investors also digested news from across the Atlantic, with Washington reporting that the world's biggest economy grew a stronger-than-expected 2.8 per cent in the third quarter ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... the past few months but that seems to have distracted some observers from seeing the positive developments across the Atlantic; though methinks Europe likes it that way - the lesser markets scrutinise the happenings there, the calmer their financials ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... made in America crisis visiting itself on his region (again) - just like the US sub-prime loan crisis swam across the Atlantic and into the Eurozone. The uncertainty sparked by the US budget impasse is already beginning to create headwinds for the single ...

Guiding it forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... are slowly emerging whether or not this would happen, but it's still nice to dream. A number of nasties hit across the Atlantic though. The US ISM manufacturing index - what I consider the most reliable leading indicator of the Amererican economy - slowed ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... a compromise. Delta Air Lines shares rose after the company said it will buy almost half of Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic for $US360 million ($A344.75 million) as it seeks a bigger share of the lucrative New York-to-London travel market. AIG also ...

Uncertainty goes uncertainty comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... Sandy-affected cities in the States - conveying her feelings in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy - reportedly the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and affected at least 24 states in America. Ms. Levitt was talking about the uncertainty of the hurricane's ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... stock markets posted gains at the close as encouraging US economic indicators boosted sentiment on both sides of the Atlantic. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares added 0.36 per cent to 5859.71 points, Frankfurt's DAX was 0.16 per cent higher at ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... expectations (for the seventh consecutive week) for a 380K print. The Philly Fed index showed that the contraction in the mid-Atlantic manufacturing sector deepened in June, the index dropped to minus 16.6 versus May's minus 5.8 reading. US existing ...