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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... lowered its long-term outlook for United States' sovereign debt to "Negative" from "Stable", due to risks from the country's deficit. "People are trying to come up with a judgement on what are the chances that the US credit rating is downgraded," Mr ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... latest "Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates" table in the "The Economist" shows that the US budget deficit is forecast to come in at 9.9 per cent of GDP this year and Britain at 9.0 per cent. Certainly, America's deficit passed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... Voicing strong doubts over the ability of battling Republicans and Democrats to agree a credible plan on cutting the fiscal deficit, S&P gave the country until 2013 to act or face losing its coveted rating. US bond prices fell sharply after the S&P news ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... the bond market is reacting to President Obama's announcement of his plan to cut US$4 trillion off America's cumulative deficit within 12 years by cutting fiscal spending and increasing income taxes. It must be this that's upped sentiment in the US bond ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... at 4999.6. NEW YORK - US stocks ticked higher Wednesday after President Barack Obama detailed his plans for cutting the deficit and a Federal Reserve report said the economy is improving at a moderate pace. Surges in tech stocks pushed the Nasdaq Composite ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... higher market interest rates. Feldstein said the great problem would come within the next five years if China moves into deficit and ceases to be a net buyer of US Government securities. China is the largest buyer of US Government securities after the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... government shutdown in the world's biggest economy. Shanghai edged up a day after China posted its first quarterly trade deficit in seven years as rising commodity prices pushed manufacturers' costs higher. China recorded a small trade deficit of $US1.02 ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... package. And before the last month of the last quarter of 2011, Portugal will report that it failed to reach its budget deficit target of 7 per cent of GDP in 2010 and instead record a deficit of 8.6 per cent of GDP. Still on European debt, Ireland will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... crisis offset largely positive US economic data. Dealers said news that both Spain and Portugal are struggling to meet key deficit targets needed to stabilise their public finances stoked fears that the debt crisis which claimed Greece and Ireland last ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... reveal the hit to the economy with government revenues dropping by 0.9 per cent. Take the two together and you have a deficit that is 24.2 per cent wider than the previous year - 11.8 billion pounds in Feb 2011 from 9.5 billion pounds in Feb 2010. The ...