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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... 10.5 points, or 0.25 per cent, at 4,115.3, the lowest since October 5. Wall Street was closed on Thursday for the Thanksgiving public holiday. On Wednesday, its last trading day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 236.17 points (2.05 per cent) ...

Nothing new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
It's Thanksgiving Day in the USA. This means it's a trading holiday in the USA. This means that us, in the Asian time zone, would have to do make do without a GPS today. This means that we'll be running around like headless turkeys. And it doesn't help ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... the Wall Street Journal on 3 December 2010 when it reported on the better-than-expected Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) sales. This is what the WSJ printed at the time: "After several years of relative thrift, consumers may be parting with ...

Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
While investors had no recourse but to leave Americans at peace to bite heartily into their Thanksgiving turkeys - markets were closed - many were still shooting down European PIGS at the same time that Koreans were shooting down each other. After sending ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... market has received mixed, flat leads from offshore trade over the weekend, with US markets subdued following the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday. On the ASX24 at 0635 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was 21 points lower at 4,576. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... probably taking a lighter approach today." Trade on the local market was subdued after Wall Street was closed for the Thanksgiving holiday overnight, Mr Taylor said. But European markets were mainly higher overnight. London's FTSE 100 index added 0.74 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... from European trading overnight, but the most powerful influence on the day's trade, Wall Street, was closed for Thanksgiving. On the ASX24 at 0701 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was four points lower at 4,591. In economics news ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... investment portfolios. If you can stand the wild volatility of today's markets, it's certainly better than investing in a Thanksgiving turkey.

When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... your poison. There's a "Murphy's Law" event for every bear to choose from to shatter all hopes, prayers and wishes. Thanksgiving? No, thanks! As Mr. Murphy famously said, "If something can go wrong, it will!" It sure the heck did over the past 24 hours. ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
Blame it on the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday in America. Financial markets are running around like headless Turkeys trying to find the nearest exit away from the oven. There was heavy selling on Wall Street overnight and then... buy backs. At lot of ...