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So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... stocks. This time, however, I agree with the meisters (or is it the meisters agreeing with me?). Wall Street rebounded overnight because... investors anticipate a rosier second quarter. Duh! With growth like this (er, contraction), there's no reason ...

In with the old, out with the new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... happy... or should be happy. I even counted the ways on this space yesterday: "Small caps - Russell 2000 up by 1.4% overnight - are back in favour. So are tech stocks - up 1.2%. US releases of the day were positive: April durable goods orders came in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... after reporting a nine per cent rise in first half earnings and flagging strong annual profit growth. On Wall Street overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 69.23 points, or 0.42 per cent, to 16,675.5 points, and the broad-based S&P 500 ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... away. But there's good news a-plenty that could explain Wall Street's good mood. Small caps - Russell 2000 up by 1.4% overnight - are back in favour. So are tech stocks - up 1.2%. US releases of the day were positive: April durable goods orders came ...

Market wrap Am

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
Australian share market is set to open higher after European markets made modest gains overnight. The New York and London markets were closed for public holidays. At 0651 AEST on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was seven points ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after markets in the United States lifted overnight and iron ore prices stabilised. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said investors were feeling positive on the back of mostly encouraging manufacturing ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... eurozone? "Euro-zone PMI slows, boosting case for ECB action" (WSJ MarketWatch). As well, Wall Street's positive reaction overnight is not that convincing -- Dow up by 0.06% and the S&P 500 by 0.24% -- more so Europe's - Stoxx 50 index up 0.02%. China's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set to open higher after Wall Street posted modest gains overnight. The March share price index futures contract is 11 points higher at 5,499. In local economic news on Friday, the Housing Industry Assocation releases ...

Easy CBs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... rationalising the previous day's drop on Wall Street was all about. There was nothing new in the Fed minutes that were released overnight. Monetary policy will remain easy because the FOMC does not "face a trade-off between its employment and inflation ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... president - and voting FOMC member -- William Dudley's speech before the New York Association for Business Economics overnight. Though what Dudley said was relegated to paragraph 12 in today's Bloomberg commentary - it didn't fit with Wall Street's performance ...