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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... 46 points higher at 3,845. In economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases business indicators for the March quarter and retail trade data for April. The Australian Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian performance ...

Net tightens on executive pay

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... Institute, ACI, has called for tighter control of executive bonus payments through the introduction of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) directly linked to industry-benchmarked governance frameworks. "We believe that the balance between performance payments ...

Take your pick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... market scorecard will remain puzzling until the system finally finds its equilibrium. But the emergence of confusing indicators -- not all pointing down - is in itself a positive development. Take your pick.

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... Look at the date...the housing price figures are for March - almost three months has passed since then. Other timely indicators have stopped deteriorating since then. Perhaps US house prices would also show improvement in the months to come. Why? Because ...

We've left bottom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... be some more nasty surprises along the way that will again test equity investors' conviction. But ultimately, more indicators would slowly be turning for the better and create a more sustainable uptrend for equities.

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... pennies were dropped from fiscal and monetary authorities' helicopters. A check on The Economist's Economic and Financial Indicators table shows that apart from Norway, all 43 countries in its list are forecast to record budget deficits this year. I ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... and concern over a possible downgrade of British government debt sent stocks sharply lower on Thursday. Major stock indicators slid more than 1.5 per cent, cutting nearly 130 points off the Dow Jones industrial average, after continuing claims for unemployment ...

Seeking equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... when I wrote two days ago that, ' Economies are currently at their inflection points. This is a time when economic indicators give contradicting evidences of the state of play. Some numbers will beat expectations, others will disappoint. This is what ...

Confusion in the inflection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... more. Sorry, I just can't resist adding the last one. I want it now. Just because the deterioration in many economic indicators have deteriorated less over the past few months does not mean that suddenly we are teleported back - at warp speed - to the ...

Bull market on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... were quick to call their market as soon as the indexes dropped below their guideposts back in 2007. It was easy then. Indicators were crumbling and no one questioned that the days of wine and roses were over. It had been much more difficult to call a ...