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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... and related gadgets. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets fell, extending the previous day's losses, despite improving German investor sentiment as traders chose profits after last week's strong gains. The benchmark FTSE 100 index dropped 0.47 per cent ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012

J.P. Morgan buys into online shopping

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... East Asia's fastest growing e-tailer, Lazada. The investment for an undisclosed amount was made via Lazada's controversial German owner, Rocket Internet. Rocket Internet GmbH is an online start-up company that clones successful internet sites and replicates ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... declining unemployment". And on the seventh day, the game changed. In a span of exactly one week, Super Mario's OMTs, the German Court's tick of approval of the ESM bailout fund and Big Ben's bazooka might just be enough to convince all and sundry of ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
Two down. European Central Bank bond purchases -- Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs) - open-ended at that: Check. German Constitutional Court's verdict on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund: Check. Ja! Jawohl! "'The review has concluded ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... index gained 34.8 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 4,383.1 points. NEW YORK - US stocks followed European markets higher after a German court gave its approval to the eurozone's permanent crisis fund, opening the door to more aid to embattled Spain. The Dow ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... Australian shares have opened slightly higher as investors remain cautious ahead of a US Federal Reserve meeting and a German court decision on the eurozone debt rescue fund. At 1018 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10.5 points ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... the home stretch folks. Soon we'll find out the answer to that seemingly eternal "will they, won't they" question? The German Constitutional Court will deliver its verdict on the legality of the EFSF/ESM rescue fund and the US Federal Reserve will commence ...

Market wrap morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... lunch event with its strategist Michael Power. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed slightly weaker ahead of a key German court decision about the euro zone funding package, with declines among the utilities and financial sectors leading the broader ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
"We have just taken a very important decision, it is a fully effective backstop for removing the tail risk of Europe." With these words, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi put a stop to months of speculation, hearsays and guesswork. Mario ...