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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... little at the moment to pin a positive market performance onto," he said. "There's talk of higher interest rates, a weak US economy, carbon tax... and with continued negative news from Europe, there's not much to be positive about." In economics news ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... OPEC could increase crude output at a meeting on Wednesday in a bid to tame high energy prices at a time when the key US economy appears to be slowing. London's FTSE 100 index edged up 0.03 per cent to 5,864.65 points. In Frankfurt, the DAX rose 0.26 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... traded. Bank shares dragged US stocks down overnight, because of worries that margins are under pressure from the slow US economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 61.3 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 12,089.96. The tech-focused Nasdaq fell by 1.11 ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... mountain that would need Fed and fiscal assistance anew? Many argue that the Fed's QE1 and QE2 have not anything for the US economy. I don't subscribe to this. The simple way to look at this is to imagine what would have happened had they not. Sure ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... supported by hopes of a deal to resolve Greek's debt crisis and very disappointing US jobs data. Dealers said news that the US economy generated only 54,000 new jobs in May, one quarter of the previous month and way below forecasts for 169,000, spooked ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... expect, over one per cent, maybe a little bit more than that." Jobs and manufacturing data suggesting weaknesses in the US economy sent the US stock market plunging overnight, wiping out the gains of previous days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped ...

Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... 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 and the European sovereign debt crisis and fiscal austerity measures ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... perhaps. But what got me here is Danny quoting Marc Faber - yes, the guru who, back in December 2008, predicted that the US economy would take five, even 10 years, to recover; the same one who predicted on March 2009 that the stock market rally would ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... day after a mixed set of US economic data made for a muted start on Wall Street, reflecting continued caution as the US economy struggles for momentum, they said. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed up 0.55 per cent at 5,955.99 points. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 102.47 points to 23,159.14. Analysts said concerns about a possible slowdown in the US economy following disappointing economic data there weighed on local shares, with investors awaiting US April unemployment data later ...