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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... Ordinaries index fell 6.5 points, at 4,973.7. NEW YORK - US stocks powered to new record highs on Wednesday after Federal Reserve meeting minutes suggested the Fed's easy-money policies would remain in place for a while longer. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... assume "the US is slowing scare" is true. If this is the case, how could CNN Money's story - about San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank president John Williams' comment that, "If all goes as hoped, we could end the purchase program sometime late this year" ...

I was there!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... houses exceeds their underlying mortgages rose to $8.2 trillion last year, a gain of 25 percent, according to Federal Reserve data." I have a problem with the durable goods orders though. It's good and yet it's bad. The financial press latched onto the ...

Reignited euro crisis prompts gold rush

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... over the last five years. While market shocks are good news for gold investors, monetary stimulus such as the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing policy is also positive for the shiny metal. ETF Securities data shows that gold has jumped 82 percent ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... soothes Cyprus worries. These five words sum up the financial markets' performance while we slept. Good thing the US Federal Reserve's monthly FOMC meeting came when it did -- right in the midst of another bout of European contagion speculation. Just ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... correction after the strong record-bursting run-up since the beginning of March, and also cautious ahead of the two-day Federal Reserve policy board meeting that begins on Tuesday. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets lost ground and the euro fell under ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... market is recovering and that companies have started to hire. Strong company earnings and ongoing stimulus from the Federal Reserve are also helping make stocks more attractive. The Dow's last nine-day winning streak was logged in May 1996. In November ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... the housing market and a pickup in hiring. Strong corporate earnings and continuing economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve are also supporting demand for stocks. LONDON - Trading on European stock markets produced mixed results as poor British economic ...

Refresher pause?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... time. In 2011, the equity markets' rally was stopped dead in its tracks by anxiety ahead of the completion the US Federal Reserve's US$600 billion QE2 on 30 June of that year. Today there's Fed QE infinity. No use by date. It will stay there until the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... LONDON - European stocks posted strong gains as Wall Street set an all-time high for intraday trades after the US Federal Reserve reaffirmed its aggressive stimulus policy. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies jumped 1.36 per cent to close at 6,431.95 ...