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May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... after all. They must write something... anything! But even them fin jornoes do not agree on who did what to Wall Street. Bloomberg thinks "U.S. Stocks Decline as Commodities Tumble Amid Stronger Dollar". For the Australian Financial Review it's, " Oil ...

Bloomberg Tradebook taps into research vein

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Bloomberg Tradebook has released new client-focused programs in a bid to build up its research offerings, with a focus on transparency and client access to information. Available to their Australian clients, the global agency broker has introduced an ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... take the financial markets down, down, down into the abyss. At this very moment, I'm still unsure which caused which. Bloomberg believes it's Wall Street's dropping that caused commodities sinking. "AAP with BusinessDay" thinks "The biggest fall in commodities ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... 52.8 last month versus 57.3 in March. The April figure is lower than even the lowest estimate (54.5 to 59) found by Bloomberg in its survey of 73 economists. There were also falls in the index's sub-components too. For instance, the new orders component ...

Thanks S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... of US$1.35. Financial markets expected revenues of US$15.9 bil and EPS of 1.26. Perhaps to fill its word count quota, Bloomberg quoted Mr. Burt White, CIO at LPL Financial Corp in Boston, saying that, "This market has been very resilient." I beg to disagree ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... already known unknowns. Now it's time to check and see how resilient company profits have been to these uncertainties. Bloomberg reports that analysts expect company profits to rise by 12 per cent in the first quarter of 2011 and by 17 per cent for the ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... Despite growing momentum in the US economy, the Fed's still maintaining its quantitative easing program. Juts last night, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans believes that, "Despite recent improvements to the ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... and just last night, Burma and Thailand were shaken by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake. But did equity markets care? Here's Bloomberg's overnight wrap: "The MSCI gauge of 24 developed nations climbed 0.8 percent at 4 p.m. in New York and is up 5 percent since ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

More to emerging markets than Asia

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... Cook. Seven of the world's fastest growing countries by GDP between 2011 and 2015 will come from Africa, according to Bloomberg. The demand for raw materials and the lowering of debt will drive growth but many investors are put off by the political risk. ...