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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... passed a bill needed to stave off debt default and the Institute for Supply Management said its index tracking economic activity in the Chicago region had jumped in June, beating forecasts. LONDON - European stock markets extended strong gains on Thursday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... news on Wednesday, Westpac and the Melbourne Institute were scheduled to publish their monthly leading index of economic activity for June. In companies news, Qantas Airways Ltd chief executive Alan Joyce was due to address the National Press Club in ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... Investors still flock to the "safety" of US bonds when the going gets volatile. There's still a likelihood that economic activity could resume after this "pause" but if not, the Fed won't stand and watch idly the "progress" it's made on the economy over ...

Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... question might be decided by causality. Which causes what? Would strong and strengthening corporate profits lift economic activity to produce a durable recovery? Or would the current soft patch the US economy finds itself in - and its huge debt and deficit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... at 4,633. In economics news on Tuesday, Westpac and the Melbourne Institute release their Leading Indices of Economic Activity for March, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issues data on construction work in March. In equities, Westfield ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... International Trade Price Indices for March, and Westpac and the Melbourne Institute releases their Leading Indices of Economic Activity for February. The Housing Industry Association (HIA) publishes its Trades Report for the March quarter. In equities ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... Thus, the stance of monetary policy remains accommodative and thereby continues to lend considerable support to economic activity and job creation. Recent economic data confirm that the underlying momentum of economic activity continues to be positive ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... of the country's economic strength. There's Australia's growth premium. Despite the momentary disruption to economic activity caused by the floods and cyclone earlier in the New Year - estimated to cause a 0.5 per cent drag on growth -- the Australian ...

Commodities rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... depend on rising demand - or more accurately, demand outstripping supply -- which, in turn, hinges on increasing economic activity. Commodity prices continue their ascent despite the catastrophic and negative events of the past three months of 2011 that ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... Fed's sticking to its very easy monetary policy. But what does a central bank do when it's presented with weak economic activity and rising inflation? Such is the dilemma that the Bank of England (BOE) must confront. Financial market speculation of an ...