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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite a mixed showing on European markets and falls on Wall Street. At 0639 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 4,931. In economic news on Tuesday, the National ...

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
Almost two months in and thus far you, I and Irene have had a happy new year... will we also have a "gung hei fat choi"? Yes Virginia, those who go by the lunar calendar has gone around yesterday, 10 February, wishing everyone "gung hei fat choi' as ...

Gone in 60 seconds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
Was it as good for you as it was for me? One thing for sure it was better for those who got on instead of the many who got off the other night. Yes, it sells but we're not talking about that. It's the people who got on the equity market train after ...

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Phew! What a relief it is, don't you think? A few more weeks (ok, ok, maybe months) of continued equity market gains and I would have yelled, "irrational exuberance!" Sure, sure, I've been trumpeting the improvements in the major and lesser economies ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
"I think I can make it now, the pain is gone All of the bad feelings have disappeared Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) Sun-shiny day." -- Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now" Remember contagion? ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a stellar performance on Wall Street at the end of the week with the Dow finishing above 14,000 for the first time since October 2007. At 0739 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite falls on Wall Street and many European bourses overnight with investors still unnerved by US gross domestic figures. Investors were surprised by the US Commerce Department figures showing the world's ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite falls on Wall Street after data showed that the US economy contracted in the fourth quarter last year. At 0630 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up seven points ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Public pension liabilities add to eurozone debt woes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
The size and complexity of European Union public pension liabilities masks the funding needs of member countries, according to new research by the EDHEC-Risk Institute. The institute says that Maastricht treaty debt-to-GDP targets are too simplistic ...