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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... modest amid caution over Greece's debt problems and renewed concern over a US economic recovery following a mixed bag of indicators on Monday. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index added 49.78 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 10,221.84. HONG KONG - Hong Kong ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... with market expectations and have already been factored in into market pricing. Last is one of my favourite leading indicators for the US economy - the ISM manufacturing index. Uh...oh, it's weaker than expected. The index printed 56.2 in February, down ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... Wall Street - the benchmark of equity markets everywhere - sweated over the past few weeks. Never mind that leading indicators - like the ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing indices - pointed towards continued expansion. Never mind that corporate ...

RBA mixes its game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... how much extra repayments borrowers would have to pay with the new rates. Who could blame them? Partial and leading indicators all point to a strengthening activity. The domestic economy has been building momentum after rebounding from the contraction ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... monetary policy in 1937 in efforts to restore the federal budget back in balance. Just as now, improvements in economic indicators (mis)led it to believe that happy days are here again. Wrong! The US economy doubled back. Unemployment increased from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... Street after a weak snapshot of the service industry revived worries about the economy's ability to recover. Major stock indicators traded mixed on Thursday after the Institute for Supply Management said its index of activity in the service industry ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... The RBA releases financial aggregates data for October and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issues business indicators data, both for the September quarter. Commonwealth Bank of Australia will launch a new data series, its new business sales ...

Liar, liar, hedge funds on fire

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... periods, less likely to use external pricing and less likely to have a big four auditor," said Brown. "Other leading indicators are that they misrepresent facts most of the time; there are problems verifying statements that they make; they keep switching ...

Beware consumer staples: Lincoln

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... consumer staples sector is showing signs of strain and the number of distressed stocks are increasing, said Lincoln Indicators. The latest Health of the Market report by Lincoln Indicators noted that around 24 per cent of consumer staples stocks were ...

You're dreaming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... six, isn't it? But why quibble about a few months. The point is that given optimism and the positive turn of economic indicators in the Australian economy, financial markets are now expecting the jobless rate to stabilise at current levels - well, maybe ...