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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... European stock markets closed lower on Friday as much weaker-than-expected US jobs data dashed hopes that the struggling US economy was about to pick up again and eurozone debt fears spread to Italy. Dealers said sentiment had steadied after a bad start ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... (Department of Labour) Sure it's still above the 400K mark that's widely-accepted as the number that'll signal that the US economy would start adding jobs, but it's now starting to head in that direction. It's still early days, and one data point does ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... release of the official US employment figure for June, one of the most closely-watched indicators of the health of the US economy, analysts said. Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note fell to 3.10 per cent from 3.14 per cent late ...

Not in the mood for bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... June - much more than the drop to 53.7 markets expected - from 54.6 in May. Hey, this is another indication that the US economy continues to slow, doesn't it? Nah, not necessarily - because, in Bloomberg's words, "A reading above 50 signals expansion." ...

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... turnaround in sentiment as regards to that other scare that's spooked financial markets over the past months - that the US economy is turning cactus. As I highlighted last week, recent economic releases are slowly falling in line with Big Benny's view ...

Former UBS star team launches flagship Bennelong Avoca fund

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... principles including sector and stock concentration rules and tracking error limits. Campbell said the weakness of the US economy and the rise of inflation in China was a concern, especially with China being the engine of growth in Australia. "We see ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... second round of quantitative easing, dubbed QE2, which has seen the Fed pump $US600 billion ($A571.32 billion) into the US economy since November to aid the flagging recovery. After a meeting of its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee this week ...

VIX says no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... Two reports proved it. US jobless claims declined by 16,000 to 414,000 in the week ended 11 June. This is good. The US economy is gaining strength because it's lower than market expectations for a drop to only 420,000. Talk about clutching at straws! ...

Fin Svcs Asian opportunity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... destination. London and New York still hold the top spots respectively. "While this was surprising, given the state of the US economy when compared to the robust nature of Asian economies, it shows that tradition and history still play a major part in ...

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... preceded by falls in Asian and European equity markets. Here's a playlist of last night's releases suggesting that the US economy is becoming not a pretty picture: US industrial production rose by 0.1 per cent in May following an unchanged reading in ...