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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... jobs data to rise 0.2 per cent on Monday, with China-linked shares such as Kubota Corp up on hopes Chinese economic indicators due later this week will be good. But gains were limited by losses in banks such as Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group after Britain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... jumped to 10.2 per cent in October as 190,000 jobs were shed. The Labor Department report, seen as one of the best indicators of economic momentum, showed a rise in the jobless rate from 9.8 per cent in September to 10.2 per cent, the highest since 1983. ...

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

Cloud computing comes to iPhone

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... by a customer. Executives can browse financial trends, watch dashboards in real-time, and drill into Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), as well as generate report snapshots and scorecards.

Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... better-than-forecasts retail sales dulled disappointment over the fall in consumer confidence in October. What about market indicators? Credit default spreads have narrowed significantly and the VIX Index - or what others call the volatility index - ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... headlines say - there weren't any fresh news to steer direction. It was the same old, same old flow of conflicting indicators. Last night, American consumer confidence fell in September when markets were expecting a rise. The other side of the coin showed ...

Liquidity flow versus trade flow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... further up equity markets run, the more its staying power is questioned. And the jury is still out because of conflicting indicators. For instance, current indications show that credit markets have returned to normality. The US dollar 3-month LIBOR/OIS ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... that the US recession was "likely over" from a technical standpoint. The Conference Board's index of leading economic indicators increased 0.6 per cent in August, just shy of the 0.7 per cent increase economists expected. It was the fifth straight month ...

BOBisms

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... remains 10.7 per cent down from a year ago, but the trend improvement is becoming clearer as the months roll. Leading indicators such as the Institute of Supply (ISM) manufacturing index has shown it the way. Perhaps 2009 would be one of those years ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... investors wary amid uncertainty about how well Japan's newly elected Democrats will be able to govern and ahead of US indicators, including the ISM manufacturing index that was due later on Tuesday. Turnover for the Tokyo exchange's first section fell ...