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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... (RBA) releases its financial aggregates data for July. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases its business indicators (including profits and inventories) data for the June quarter. TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute release their inflation ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... result for the second quarter. But whether they do or not is moot. The second quarter is passed. And given the partial indicators, it would be good. Recession? What recession? Well ok, no recession. But now we have to battle the prospect of rising interest ...

Bassanese opens ETF consultancy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... The SectorMAX report is also produced monthly but focuses on four preferred sectors in the ASX 200 using a number of indicators to provide insight into key economic developments. Bassanese has more than 20 years experience in economics and financial ...

Fundies and analysts target IT sector

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... have" for today's consumers and businesses. Elio D'Amato, chief executive at sharemarket information provider Lincoln Indicators, said the local IT sector had matured and is generating profits from its products. "Back then blue sky stories and fairy ...

Fear not a rate rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... by extension, its equity market. Consensus expectations have been consistently revised over the past few months as indicators went from doom, to bad, to less bad, to good and now better. So much so that even those insisting that an Australian recession ...

September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... have a September meltdown. Woe to the US, woe to the world! Forget that recent macro economic and financial market indicators in America and the rest of the world have been slowly but steadily strengthening. Forget that nearly three-quarters of companies ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... has shifted its monetary policy stance to neutral! OK, you may kick yourselves now. But...but. But what? But leading indicators of the labour market earlier this year were all pointing to massive job shedding to come? This time they've stopped getting ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... cent as at June. It is likely that this could still rise but not as much as previously expected. Leading employment indicators such as the ANZ job ads index have shown signs of stabilising. And as for the housing market -- that bane of the US and UK ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... outlook for the global economy. For how could they not? There was just no use swimming against the tide of improving indicators. For instance, the latest report from Bloomberg show that around 71 per cent of the 148 companies in the S&P500 index that ...

The perfect hedge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... quietly made big strides through all these. And its name is gold. Now that the tempest has seemingly passed - economic indicators have stabilised and financial market volatility has eased - gold's attraction appears to have also waned. From the time ...