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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower. At 0830 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down three points at 4,394. In economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Reserve Bank holds it monthly board meeting and decides ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
Hands up all those who thought that it would be smooth sailing for Europe this year (or even the next). Hands up all those who thought that the Eurozone would dodge a recession or that many of its members would be able to bring down their debts and ...

Good bacteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
Events of the past week show that what happens in Greece does not stay in Greece, with financial markets zigging on reports that its debt swap deal is in doubt and zagging when it ultimately went through - at the 11th hour as it has always been with ...

Good not great

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
Yesterday we found out, what Australians all knew all along. Most voters love the K-man, but most in his party doesn't. The reverse is true for the G-lady. Was it worth the political drama of the past four days - the humiliation on the international ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
There's a certain kind of hush all over the world overnight as financial markets turned their attention back to the Greeks and their seemingly never-ending negotiations with their benefactors - the IMF, the EU, the ECB... and private creditors. Ahhh ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
So here we are... in another "waiting to exhale" moment. Like I, me and Irene expected, volatility's picked up ahead of the unveiling of yet another European Grand Plan. It's Plan Numero Five this time. And like the anticipation that went before Plans ...

Dead calm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
This morning I woke up to Reuter's headline screaming, "Stocks slide on weak US growth data" and Bloomberg's "European Stocks Drop as Euro Area Borrowing Costs Rise; Commerzbank Slumps". What could have scared the equities markets off again this time ...

Second best month of the year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
Will yuletide 2011 be another season to be jolly? Yes 'tis the season to be jolly - fa la la la la la la - if you believe the Stock Trader's Almanac, that is. "According to app.com, "Seasonality, at least according to history, is about to swing to stocks' ...

On the verge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
The storm after the calm. Just when we thought financial markets have shaken off the high anxiety of the past week, teeth gnashing returns. Blood's again been spilled on the trading dance floors of commodity markets and most major equity markets around ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Australian stocks plunged at the open after world markets fell sharply overnight and experts say more grief is to come. At time of writing, the All Ordinaries Index was down 173 points or 3.97% to 4179.9 while the S&P ASX 200 had given up 156.5 points ...