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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... Australian market looks set to open lower following unimpressive showings on international bourses after news the eurozone recession deepened in the final three months of last year. At 0853 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... annualised rate of 0.1% in the fourth quarter. That's bad news isn't it? The US is one quarter away from a technical recession! That double-dip expected last year could come true. But have no fear there are silver linings in the report. The dip was due ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... slid 0.82 per cent to 8,571.90 points on news that Spain's growth shrank 0.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2012, as recession tightened its grip on the eurozone's fourth-largest economy. The euro reached $US1.3563, buoyed by upbeat confidence data ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... another later. QE1 was started on 25 November 2008 and ended on 31 March 2010. Time to stop balance sheet expansion, recession is over and inflation is picking up. Markets are up. It was lookin' good baby. Then came the fall or perhaps, the fall out ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... the RBA the rhyme and the reason to slash borrowing costs again if needed. Then there's the eurozone. They're still in recession yes but talks of a crisis or disintegration has died down. So has that of a Grexit. Many are now convinced it's Grexin. Yes ...

Repressed rally

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... outlook for the coming months. And that outlook is positive. The US economy continues to improve and though still in recession, Europe's sovereign debt issue now appears to be a problem rather than a crisis. And then there's China. You've seen the latest ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... currency region will be forced to go their separate ways. Guess what? Although, the eurozone wasn't able to dodge a recession, it remains one and Greece has yet to default. Plus, the region's financial markets have stabilised, volatility significantly ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2013
... start growing again later this year, but he warned that the region has yet to reach a turning point in its struggle with recession and handling its government debt load. The comments bolstered expectations that the worst of the region's crisis may be ...

2013

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... one will be that Australia, as a fundamentally nervous nation, will continue to do all it can to talk itself into a recession by focusing on how our unemployment rate is somehow a disaster at 5.2%, and that interest rates, the AUD and government debt ...