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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... competition concerns. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets mostly rose Thursday on upbeat US economic news and bargain hunting, but optimism was tempered by the crisis in the Middle East and North Africa, which kept oil near two-year highs. Concerns about ...

Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... stocks rose, rebounding from yesterday's slump, as chipmakers rallied and signs of a strengthening job market bolstered optimism the economy can withstand a surge in energy costs." Get it? Yesterday it couldn't, today, the economy can... withstand higher ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
The Australian dollar was higher on Monday, as business indicators data for the December quarter increased market optimism ahead of GDP data due out this Wednesday. At 0700 AEDT on Monday, the local unit was trading at 101.41 US cents, up from 101.21 ...

Roubini defects

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... March 2009. Follow the money. Yes, the Fed's QE is working its magic. The recovery is getting traction and it's raising optimism. So much so that tensions in the Persian Gulf - usually and historically a trigger to hit the sell button - have been largely ...

Headlining the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
All this talk about prices heating up is melting financial market optimism. Investors have every right to be worried if, indeed, the cost of goods and services continue to head north. Last night's report that UK inflation jumped to 4.0 per cent - double ...

Fund managers eye Asian equities: RBC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... intra-regional differences in search for yield," said Marc Harris, co-head Global Research, RBC Capital Markets. There was less optimism for US markets. Just 54 per cent of participants predicted equity gains, down from 66 per cent in a similar RBC survey ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... the world's number two economy to China. The market partly responded to a modest gain on Wall Street on Friday, where optimism about US economic prospects was compounded by relief at the resignation of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak after weeks of unrest. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... the session down 0.17 per cent, or 18.15 points, at 10,617.83, as weakness among stocks with exposure to China offset optimism caused by a weaker yen, which helps Japanese exporters. The People's Bank of China said on Tuesday it was raising the one-year ...

Wall Street does an Abbott

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... double the rate of the previous month. LONDON - European stock markets closed higher on Monday on the back of growing optimism about the economic outlook and solid corporate results but the euro slipped on weaker-than-expected German data. Markets were ...