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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... 3.5% and 4.1%, respectively, because "the threat of a sharp global slowdown eased with improved activity in the United States and better policies in the euro area." To make it three for three, last night it changed its mind again. While it kept its 2012 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... contracts traded. Cameron Securities client adviser Adrian Leppinus said the local markets took its cues from the United States. "Our market is following the lead from overseas and the big move in the commodities side of things," Mr Leppinus said. In ...

Investors ignoring credit

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... investors are quite rightly switching on to the importance of capital preservation," he said. Forms of credit include United States high-yield bonds, syndicated loans, US investment-grade corporate bonds and Australian inflation-linked bonds.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... Australia, the market on Wednesday, closed relatively flat as investors awaited key economic data and commentary from the United States and more figures on China's economic growth. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.5 points, or 0.04 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... brushed off monetary stimulus measures in Europe and China, and focused instead on disappointing jobs data in the United States. London's benchmark FTSE 100 slid 0.53 per cent to close at 5,662.63 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 shed 1.92 per cent to 6,410.11 ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... but since the IMF stated in April that, "The threat of a sharp global slowdown eased with improved activity in the United States and better policies in the euro area," through to last night, the S&P 500 lost 1.2%. The loss would have been greater, down ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... Australia, the market on Tuesday closed slightly weaker as investors weighed up recent weak economic data out of the United States and China and as Australia's central bank left the cash rate unchanged. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 5.8 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... overnight after news that manufacturing contracted for the first time in almost three years, raising concerns the United States has joined a global industrial slowdown. At 0800 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 15 points ...

US equities a gateway to emerging markets

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... continued to grow since it had its fastest improvement in one and half years during Q4 2011, growing by 3%. However, The United States Federal Reserve recently opted not to embark on another round of quantitative easing - dubbed QE3 - which would have ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... disappointing economic data from China and Europe followed the Federal Reserve's slashing its growth forecast for the United States. At the close the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 250.82 points, or 1.96 per cent, at 12,573.57. European stocks ...