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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... Wednesday finished slightly higher as cautious investors awaited any action by the US central bank to stimulate the faltering American economy. At the close on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 9.1 points, or 0.22 per cent, at 4,132.4 ...

Uncle Ben to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... report - dated as it may be - reinforces the renewed weakness in the US labour market. More so given Bloomberg's news that American companies "have started to delay recruitment and investment on fears that Congress won't act to stop the $600B of automatic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... Tinto is also due to appear before the inquiry. Meanwhile, Sydney Airport chief executive Kerrie Mather is to address the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia business briefing in Sydney, while Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ...

Down and out in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... be today, next week or next month. Unfortunately, we never can tell except with hindsight. But gauging from the latest American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey which found that "Bearish sentiment rebounded to an unusually ...

10m Aussies 'Like' Facebook

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... use it, making Australia on a per capita basis one of Facebook's best markets. According to telephone survey of 1004 American adults conducted earlier this month, half thought the social media website was going to fade in popularity. This is despite ...

Asian private equity grows rapidly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... returns out of all vintages analyzed, with a median IRR of 31.1% and a median multiple of 2.29-times, outperforming North American and European funds of this vintage". Other vintages have been dramatically and negatively impacted by the 2008 downturn ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... that US unemployment claims came in a thousand heads better than expected. Suddenly those worrying about the weakening American labour market are no longer worried. All because claims printed at 367,000 instead of the 368,000 markets were predicting. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following the lead of Wall Street which ended its last session down on weak jobs data. At 0800 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down 51 points at 4,340. In economic news on ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... businesses have increased staffing levels more than required and so expect heads to roll going forward. I don't know. The American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) latest survey found exactly this indecision. According to AAII, "This week's ...

China a good bet in the long run: Thawley

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... Thawley is also a vice president and principal executive officer of Capital World Growth and Income fund, vice chairman of American Funds Global Balanced Fund and executive vice president of New Perspective Fund, EuroPacific Growth Fund and New World ...