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Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... falling sharply on Monday and Tuesday, amid disappointing Chinese export numbers. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the overnight price movements had helped iron ore producers including Fortescue and Atlas Iron recover from recent losses. Fortescue ...

Maybe slowing, definitely distorted, more likely rebalancing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... headed for a certain slowdown, perhaps even a hard landing. That's what caused the fall in US and European equity markets overnight, the "tumble" in emerging market equities, the sharpest one-day drop in iron ore prices in over four years, the biggest ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... continues to go after Putin) - as evidenced by the green lights flashing on the screens of most major equity markets overnight. Not even next door neighbour - the European Central Bank (ECB) - is perturbed. It voted to keep interest rates unchanged overnight. ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... market is getting back to its basic level after the gyrations caused by the situation in Ukraine." Wall Street fell overnight after a report showed only modest private-sector jobs growth in the US in February. BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto tumbled in opening ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... and so what were lost during Putin's "exercises" were recovered... and then some. The S&P 500 index rebounded by 1.5% overnight, more than recovering the 0.74% it lost as Putin "exercised". So did the FTSE-100 index - up 1.7% from down 1.5%. The Euro ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... 2008, doing it now in Ukraine, tomorrow... ??? I don't think he even blinked at the Russian stock market's 11% drop overnight or the impact on Russia's already slowing economy of the Russian Central Bank's decision to lift interest rates by 150 bps to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... encouraging," she said. "The big miners are also looking much more well supported, after we saw the iron or price rise overnight." In the resources sector, BHP Billiton was up 28 cents at $38.66, Rio Tinto had lifted $1.03 to $67.63, and Fortescue Metals ...

A tall tale of a good story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... kept out of it - "U.S. Stocks Fall After Weaker Housing, Confidence Data" says Bloomberg. Sure, the S&P 500 index fell overnight - but by only an itsy bitsy teenie weenie 0.1% and this dip followed the previous day's record high breaking finish. But ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... securities worth $970.1 million. AAP gr/cdh SYDNEY, Feb 25 AAP - The Australian sharemarket has opened higher after solid overnight leads from Wall Street. An accelerating February rally has helped the US broad-based S&P 500 close less than a point away ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... years." Amber. That's the flashing light for the Eurozone equities. The Euro Stoxx 50 index barely budged (up 0.03% overnight). This is because Markit's flash PMI reading for the region was neither here nor there. The composite PMI slipped a bit to 52.7 ...