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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... "stress tests". While charts suggest recent falls in the Nikkei may be coming to an end, a number of lacklustre US indicators including Tuesday's housing starts kept investors wary, with few willing to actively buy before Japanese earnings pick up steam ...

Paul does it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... 4,370.6. NEW YORK - US stocks slumped on Tuesday as sagging American consumer confidence and weak Chinese economic indicators renewed fears that the global economic recovery may falter. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled by more than ...

No complaints for HK regulator

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... we are encouraged to see a high approval rate for our work, we will not be complacent. We shall use the findings as indicators to prioritise our work and allocate our resources towards upgrading our work," he said. This survey was released before the ...

Back to basics key to planners successs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... resources also play a role in making a business successful. This includes accurate job descriptions and key performance indicators for all staff that are clearly linked to achieving business goals. Despite these fairly basic strategies, the study found ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... 1,117.51 points. The Nasdaq composite index closed up 2.64 points, or 0.11 per cent, at 2,309.80 points. All three indicators posted solid gains for the week: the Dow advanced 2.3 per cent, the S&P 500 climbed 2.4 per cent and the Nasdaq rose three per ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... hoping and thinking and praying..." Not when you remember that employment is a lagging indicator of the economy. Forward indicators -- such as the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing and non-manufacturing indexes -- continue to herald ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... consensus advice to China. Despite the renewed threat to their wealth, US consumer confidence is rising. More positive indicators were reported just last night. The ISM manufacturing index might have slipped to 59.7 per cent in May from 60.4 in the previous ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... this way. It can't lower interest rates this early just because of the uncertainty in Europe and despite some economic indicators showing signs of weakening - retail sales, consumer confidence, private sector credit, etc. As in recent history, the Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
... Statistics (ABS) releases the balance of payments and international investment position for March, as well as its business indicators for the March quarter. TD Securities/Melbourne Institute release their inflation gauge for May. The Housing Industry ...