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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... sovereign debt burdens in Europe, before snapping back in the final hour. The US non-farm payrolls report, which showed the US economy lost 20,000 jobs in January, but the unemployment rate fell to 9.7 per cent, also presented a muddled picture on the ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... 5.7 per cent growth. Without the contribution from inventories growth would only be 2.3 per cent and the bulk of the US economy - personal spending - is slowing. Personal consumption slowed to 2.0 per cent in the fourth quarter from 2.8 per cent in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... 1,073.87. All three key indices were up in early trading as the market initially cheered a government report showing the US economy roaring to life in the fourth quarter with a 5.7 per cent growth rate on the back of brisk business spending to replenish ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... to 4,697.7. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks fell sharply on Thursday as investors absorbed more evidence of a troubled US economy. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled following disappointing reports on employment and orders for big-ticket manufactured ...

One down, more to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... to hear what President Obama has to say in his State of the Union speech. Wall Street's still waiting to see how the US economy fared in the last quarter of 2009. All these would come to a head at the end of this week. And while it would remove some ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... 4,670 points. NEW YORK - The US stock market rose after the Federal Reserve issued a more upbeat assessment of the US economy early on Thursday. Major stock indices had fallen before the Fed released its statement following a two-day meeting on interest ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... Bernanke, for one, knows this all too well. He is an expert of the Great Depression of the 1930s. He knows too well how the US economy plunged back into contraction when the Roosevelt administration raised taxes, cut back spending and tightened monetary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... YORK - US stocks mostly rose on Friday on signs that consumers and businesses were feeling more confident about the US economy after better-than-expected retail sales figures for November. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 65.67, or 0.63 per cent ...

Low rates to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... does this leave us? Back in Kansas, that's where. Low interest rates would continue to underpin improvement in the US economy and on Wall Street. These, along with the resumption of the downtrend in the US dollar, would reinforce the US dollar carry ...

Inflation-linked bonds armour against rising risk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... money supply and higher rates of inflation. "The US Federal Reserve has pumped an enormous amount of cash into the US economy over the past 12 months to fight the global financial crisis," Matthew Peter said. "Normally these funds would flow into the ...