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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... with international markets boosted by encouraging eurozone data signalling that the 17-nation bloc may be edging out of recession. At 0647 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 18 points at 5,134. In economic news ...

Curve ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013

Let the baby kissing pictures begin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013

The recession we are promised to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013

Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... could taper all it wants. Not only this, the latest PMI report indicates that the euro area is expected to emerge from recession in the third quarter. Plus, reports last night show German business confidence improved for a third month in July and get ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... spending, their privatisations are not working it seems. Nay, not it seems...they are not working period. Greece remains in recession - 5 years and counting - and its jobless rate soaring. It's at a record 26.9% in April and at 57.5% for those aged 15-24. ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... at The Economist Bellweather 2013 Australian Forum in Sydney, Swan said predictions of economic instability, or even recession, ignore the fact that the transition is happening gradually, non-mining investment is growing and policy settings are in place ...

Limbo of uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... succour to the domestic economy. Yippee-ki-yay! Too, no one ever thought of calculating the statistical probability of recession back then. Not so this time though. Only about a month ago, Goldman Sachs reduced its Australian 2013 growth forecasts to ...

Peace, be still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... fell (and the A$ rose). See? Told you the A$ weakness was more a US dollar story than the "Australia is headed for a recession" because "mining is no longer booming" because "commodity prices are falling" because "China is slowing" and the "RBA would ...

Reversing fortunes to another crisis?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013