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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... week on a high note, with Frankfurt's blue-chip DAX 30 index breaking above the 7,000-point level on a eurozone defence by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The DAX gained 0.64 per cent to close at 7,040.88 points after already breaking briefly through ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... and housing construction that added evidence the economy is growing steadily. Markets were also spurred by comments from German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Canada, which appeared to give solid backing for the European Central Bank (ECB). Traders took ...

China FDI flow slows, and?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
Don't look now but fresh bad news has just come out of China. This time, however, there was not that "sky is falling" feeling that populates cyberspace each time Chinese economic updates disappoint market expectation. Sure there were the obligatory ...

Dull night on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... While indications show that the festering problems in the region are impacting activity in the two biggest countries - German real GDP growth eased to 0.3% in the June quarter from 0.5%, France showed no growth in both quarters - the latest reading are ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street pared early gains to close similarly flat. At 0752 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up two points at 4,258. In economic news on Wednesday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... 0.54 per cent to 3,456.71. Frankfurt's DAX 30 slipped by an insignificant 0.02 per cent to 6,964.99 amid disappointing German company earnings. Madrid's Ibex 35 index was 0.56 per cent lower at 7,110.2 points meanwhile, and the FTSE MIB slipped by 0.08 ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... the BOE sees no growth this year and only 2.0% over the next two years (from 2.5% estimated only three months before), German factory orders dropped by 1.7% in June (more than twice as much as the 0.8% fall) and Spanish 10-year bond yields have risen ...

Double A USA - the scare that wasn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
... day of the week to European equity markets. That was until another somebody (ok maybe a spokesman for another somebody) - German government spokesman Georg Streiter - hinted of Germany's apparent support for the ECB's plan to buy EU bonds. There's hope ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
The Australian sharemarket has opened slightly lower as investors wait to see if stimulus measures will be introduced in Europe and the US. At 1014 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 5.6 points, or 0.13 per cent, at 4,263.6 ...

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Noi! Noi! Noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
While waiting for CB's to walk their talks, I came upon a number of reports about how the Australian dollar is becoming a major reserve currency. It has rebounded to a five-month high of US$1.0510 last night and up 8.3% from this year's US$0.9705 low ...