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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... slashed its global economic growth forecast, citing new downside risks in key emerging-market economies and a deeper recession in the eurozone. Meanwhile, economy and finance ministers from all 28 European Union countries gave the final green light to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... market strategist Evan Lucas said. "The fact Europe looks like normalising and could emerge from what is a record-long recession for the region, will be a massive benefit the global economy. "From an Asian-centric view, Europe is the largest consumer ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... European stock markets rose on encouraging manufacturing data which suggests the eurozone economy may be climbing out of recession. Markets brushed aside news of record high unemployment in the eurozone and more weak Chinese economic data, while gold ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... slowed but this happened not only because China because the other big economies of the US, Japan and Europe slipped into recession...and oh, commodity prices also crash by 40% in the eight months between June 2008 and February 2009. Now we have improving ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... need to remind you what happened after that. AFP (10 January 2008). "The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession." Ha ha bloody ha. As it turned out, the US was already in recession - Q4 2007 - when he said that...and continued to contract ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... index retreated 1 per cent to 8098.30 points after the release of an IMF report signalling an end to Spain's double-dip recession but still warning that more reform was needed to reverse high unemployment. The euro rose to $US1.3404 from $US1.3396 late ...

The sky is falling downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... country to 2% (from 2.4%) and to 1.9% (from 2.7%) next year while at the same time warning of a 20% probability of a recession. There's former Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Bernie Fraser warning that the "good times have passed" for the Australian ...

The coming 2013 crash according to Paul B. Farrell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... year end. (you can read his full tale of horror here. The bucket list: 1. Warren Buffett 'guaranteed' new bubble, new recession four years ago 2. Federal Reserve's Council: 'Unsustainable bubble in stocks, bonds' 3. Peter Schiff is 'doubling down' on ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... done during the 1997 Asian crisis, the 1998 LTCM bankruptcy and Russian debt default, September 11, 2001, the 2002 US recession and the 2008 global financial crisis, to name a few. The Australian dollar dropped to a low of US$0.9511 overnight - the lowest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... as well as fears the Fed will begin cutting monetary stimulus. Official data showed the 17-member eurozone stuck in recession for a sixth consecutive quarter in the first three months of 2013. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares ended 2.12 per ...