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Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... zinc, tin, wheat, corn, cotton and cattle, to name a few - scrambling on the up and up. China happy, Europe happy - the Euro Stoxx 50 closed a little it over 1% up - happier still on reports that Greece is nearing a deal on receiving a fresh a,-86B rescue ...

Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... intact and that there won't be any Grexit - at least, this month - if I ever saw one. Yet, the nays have it too. The Euro Stoxx 600 index sank by 1.0% and the Athens SE General Index down a hefty 2.5%. But no surprises here, we've been here before... ...

Q1 earnings expectations get rub down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... up by 0.4% in the first three months of 2015 - a significant underperformance compared with the 16.0% surge in the Euro Stoxx 600 index, the Nikkei-225 index's 10.1% advance and the FTSE-100's 3.2% gain. This is hardly surprising even if one were to ...

STOXX enters Australian market

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... help us service them more effectively," STOXX Limited chief executive officer Hartmut Graf said. STOXX created the EURO STOXX 50 in 1998 and since then it looks after more than 7,000 offerings, including all global regions spanning blue chips to benchmarks ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... of speculations, debates, dissents, deliberations and delays on the whole issue of QE - and he over-delivered. The Euro Stoxx-50 index jumped by another 1.6% overnight (taking its year-to-date gain to 5.7%) the euro closed 2.1% lower to US$1.1366 (and ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... promised to reverse austerity measures and un-cooperate with Greece's EU/IMF benefactors - might win. This sent the Euro Stoxx-50 index down by 2.6% and the broader Stoxx-600 off by 2.2% overnight. Bad news, they say, come in threes. Here's the third ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Germany -- rebounded (big time) in November after falling month after month after month since December last year. The Euro Stoxx 50 index gained 1.2% overnight as did Spain's IBEX-35; the CAC-40 went up by 0.9% and Italy's MIB index closed 0.7% higher. ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... we got last night. The euro reversed its decline, so did euro bond yields and European equity indices dropped. The Euro Stoxx-600 index dropped by 2.4%, Germany's DAX index dropped by 2.0%, France's CAC-40 index dropped by 2.8%, Italy's FTSE MIB dropped ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... where it was at the start of 2014. Given the lead from offshore markets overnight - the S&P 500 dropped by 0.8%, the Euro Stoxx 600 drooped by 0.5%, the FTSE-100 declined by 0.9% -- investors might just be waiting for the opening bell to take the All ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... government is ready to take flexible action if needed, Economy Minister Akira Amari said today..." (Bloomberg). The Euro Stoxx 50's happy - up 1.1% at the close - because the DAX's happier - up 1.4% -- despite data showing that inflation in the biggest ...