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Goldi-jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... Street, the S&P closed the first quarter of 2011 5.4 per cent higher - the fastest first quarter gain in 13 years. The optimism sapping events of the first quarter remains in play as we cross the threshold into the second but both momentum and fundamentals ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... Asian stocks ended mostly higher on Thursday as a strong set of jobs figures from the United States boosted regional optimism, despite lingering caution over Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis. Tokyo's Nikkei closed 0.48 per cent, or 46.31 points, higher ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... question that pops in my head watching the financial markets' reaction to the current events that normally would sap optimism out of any rational human investor. Inured? Yes Virginia, you're well aware of all the troubles that have come our way since ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... 9,536.13, while the Topix index added 3.43 points, or 0.40 per cent, to 857.38. However, caution remained, with fragile optimism likely to erode on any setback in the delicate operations to restore power to overheating reactors at the Fukushima atomic ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... inflation and the spike in crude oil prices in the list of uncertainties above. But with most investors riding on the wave of optimism, further gains are in store for equity markets, particularly because this optimism has the potential to become self-fulfilling. ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... rate by 25 bps to 6.75 per cent and the reverse repo rate by the same amount to 5.75 per cent. Perhaps it's the sense of optimism that international agencies are all working together to prevent the crisis from turning into calamity. The G7 intervened ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... 3.6 per cent drop earlier and is much smaller than the declines posted on Monday and Tuesday, before a rally Wednesday. Optimism was further buoyed by a bigger than expected drop in US weekly jobless claims. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British ...

Japan shall overcome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
The still-unfolding disaster in Japan is sapping the optimism off financial markets. Stock markets rallied yesterday but it looks like they'll be down again today. Volatility is the order of today and would remain so for as long as strong aftershocks ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... from the continued upward march in oil, and the recent ups and downs on Wall Street, underlying sentiment remains one of optimism. There is not the elevated fear that prevailed during the GFC or when the European sovereign debt crisis occupied the headlines. ...