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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.4 points, or 0.03 per cent, at 4,358 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen two points, or 0.05 per cent to 4,385 points. On the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was steady ...

100% world recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... in America and/or a hard landing in China, the indicator of fear in the financial markets - the VIX index - has actually fallen from a high of 26.66 on the 1st of June this year to a 62-month low of 13.7 this month. It settled at 15.2 last Friday - a ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... volatile stat that seesaws from one week to the next. The less volatile measure, the four-week moving average of claims, has fallen to 368K -- below the 400K economists' estimate would bring the unemployment rate down - from 405K last year. So all good? ...

Soros family office buys into Man United

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... giving a value of $US2.3 billion, making it the most valuable team in the world. Since then however, shares in the club have fallen almost a dollar in value. Soros converted his hedge fund into a family office last year. Although he is still chairman ...

Sitting and waiting and still hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... palpitations, financial markets remain on wait mode. In fact, they've been waiting for quite a while now that I think, they've fallen asleep. Just you look how flat market movements have become. Although the Fed's FOMC meeting minutes are set for release ...

Write-down clouds Bendigo's 43% profit tumble

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... Bendigo's funds under advice for its wealth customers through the IOOF Pursuit platform. The bank's lending portfolio had fallen more than 70% since its $8 billion peak in 2007. Cost containment and efficiency has been a major focus over the period 12 ...

The rally that no one's enjoyed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... scared? Guess what? We're spooked off our pants that we've taken the Dow up 102.8% from the bottom of that sinkhole it's fallen in back in March 2009, the S&P 500 up 109.6% and the Nasdaq up 142.5%... even as the gloom and doomers never gave up prophesising ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... operator ASX Ltd shed 12 cents to $31.29 after it said full year profit dropped by four per cent because investor activity had fallen with the uncertainty caused by Europe's debt crisis. Dexus Property Group suffered a 67 per cent slump in full year ...

China FDI flow slows, and?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... -- not much, especially considering that the index has experienced average daily drops of more than 1% this year and has fallen by as much as 2.7% (4 June) in one day. The fresh bad news. Foreign direct investment inflows into China dropped by 8.7% to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... cent due to rising gold prices. JB Hi-Fi shares were up 57 cents, or 6.18 per cent, after it said its full year profit had fallen five per cent but it expected sales to grow in the year ahead. Downer EDI posted a net profit of $112.8 million for the ...