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Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... rehash those old tales of woe like spending cuts and higher taxes would slow US economic growth, the Eurozone remains in recession and the debt crisis could re-emerge at anytime, China's still not out of the hard landing woods, emerging markets are slowing ...

More than five minutes this time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... monetary policy go into reflation overdrive - to defeat two decades of deflation and lift the economy from its third recession in four years. Good, good. 'Whatever it takes' policy should put further downward pressure on the yen - the main variable that's ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... growth subject, the Australian economy had been growing year in, year out for 21 years (that's a generation!) without a recession. That's despite being subjected to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98, the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000, September ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... there's also a not so cheery outlook. Though Europe seems at peace at the moment, it remains a major risk. It's still in recession and unemployment continues to jump to records. It's hard to tell what people might do when pushed to the wall. And mind ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... four years after the Dow reached a crisis low of 6,470, having lost more than half its value as the US sank into deep recession. LONDON - European stocks posted strong gains as Wall Street set an all-time high for intraday trades after the US Federal ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... prospects for China, the second biggest. British stocks were also pulled lower by poor survey data that signalled a fresh recession on the horizon and as global bank HSBC posted sliding annual profits. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies fell ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... 14,089.66, less than 100 points from all-time high of 14,164.53 on October 9, 2007, ahead of the markets crash and the Great Recession. The broad-based S&P 500 increased 3.52 (0.23 per cent) to 1,518.20, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained ...

Falling gold price a buying opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... interest rates expected to remain extremely low for the foreseeable future and the Eurozone economy likely to remain in recession in 2013, the price fall means the shiny metal could now well be undervalued. While gold is not a mainstream investment for ...

Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... up: S&P 500, up 6.6%; Nikkei 225, up 7.5%; Shanghai Composite, up 7.2%; All Ords, up 8.4%; even a deeper than expected recession in the Eurozone couldn't stop its benchmark index, the DJ/Euro Stoxx index from climbing 1.3%. The game is changing alright ...

Beans means Buffet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... with the better-than-expected reports on surveys on the global economy, notwithstanding the 'old news' of continued recession in Japan and the Eurozone. But the stock market? The S&P 500 index is now less than 50 points shy of conquering the all-time ...