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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... 2,933.80. The market was already weighed by unrest in the Middle East, eurozone debt worries, a wider-than-expected US trade deficit and China's announcement of a rare trade deficit for February. Friday's falls came after steep losses on Thursday, when ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... economy that now threatens oil prices. It all started in Asia, when China reported its largest trade (and only the second) deficit in seven years of US$7.3 billion in February as a 19.4 per cent year-on-year jump in imports negated the paltry (by China's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... with the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 indexes all losing more than 1.8 per cent in the day. A wider-than-expected US trade deficit and a rare trade shortfall in China for February, together with new sovereign downgrades in Europe and turmoil in Saudi Arabia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... overnight and has helped the Australian dollar." At 1130 (AEDT), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported a deficit of $7.299 billion in the December quarter from a downwardly revised deficit of $6.490 billion in the September quarter. The ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
Months of anxiety over rising inflation, speculation over near-term hikes in interest rates (in the developed economies) and/or actual hikes in interest rates (in emerging markets), lingering doubts over the US recovery, policy mistake and then a hard ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

1989 redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... west and allocated to more productive, private endeavours. \ America's budget balance, for example, which had been in deficit since 1970, turned into a US$69.2 billion surplus by 1998 and grew to a high of US$236.4 billion by 2000. The S&P 500 index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices flat and mixed, precious metals higher, but oil was lower. On the ASX 24 at 0854 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was seven ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
I don't know about you but it seems to me that everybody and his dog are now tuning in into the "Fiscal Deficit & Sovereign Debt Watch" show. Of course, there's nothing closer to our Australian hearts than the Gillard and Swan tandem disaster levy just ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011