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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... higher. Investors also were buying stocks on growing confidence about the global economic recovery, getting a shot of optimism from news this weekend that the Group of 20 countries will keep stimulus measures in place. Investors saw the agreement as ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... PARIS - The CAC 40 closed down 63.79 points, or 1.68 per cent, at 3,744.45. TOKYO - Asian markets were mostly higher as optimism about the upcoming third quarter reporting season helped investors brush off a weak lead from Wall Street at the end of last ...

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... 109.13 points, or 1.08 per cent, to 9,972.18, a day after the blue-chip index gained more than 100 points on earnings optimism. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite shed 10.82 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 2,154.47 and the broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... Yellen). Bubbles only form when everyone is optimistic. Right now, not everyone is. Right now, there is only 'cautious' optimism. The economic cycle will prevail. The bust will be followed by recovery, then growth before we experience another bust. We ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... LONDON - Europe's main stock markets ended mostly weaker as profit takers set in a day after a global rally sparked by optimism about economic recovery after better-than-expected US company results. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed down ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... per cent to 516.7 billion yuan ($75.7 billion) in September from 410.4 billion yuan in the previous month. Sure this optimism could again go puff in the days to come. It's still early days and more companies are yet to report earnings. And longer-term ...

Earnings surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
... time is that unlike the second quarter (and the first), profit expectations have been revised higher. The general market optimism has encouraged many an analyst to set the profit bar higher - a case of over-compensating for their bearish estimates in ...

Bears cursed by September curse

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
General financial market optimism and momentum defeated the curse of September this year. Recall that on the very first day of September I wrote that, "the line of least resistance is for history to re-assert itself." Id est, worries that September ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... 1060.61. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets slipped as investors cashed in their gains from another rally of economic optimism. London's FTSE index of leading shares closed 5.98 points lower, or 0.12 per cent, at 5159.72 points. FRANKFURT - The DAX ...