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Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... so far. Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson and last night, Intel, Cisco, Altera and Gannet. There you go. According to Bloomberg, "earnings topped by an average 20 percent for the 16 companies in the S&P 500 that released second-quarter results since July ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... 2.6 per cent overnight and the S&P closed 2.9 per cent lower. Or for extra effect, the Dow plunged by 223.32 points! Bloomberg's headline: 'U.S. Stocks Slide in Dow's Worst Drop Since April on Jobs Data'. The Melbourne Age's webpage had something more ...

Not a happy EOFYS on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... bit over a per cent lower. Big deal. Wall Street still produced the best quarterly performance in more than a decade. Bloomberg reports that last night's EOFYS on Wall Street came 'after consumer confidence unexpectedly slid and delinquencies on the ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... according to chartists or market technicians - as they like to be called - is a bearish signal. And to hammer it in, Bloomberg reports that, "Insiders of S&P 500 companies were net sellers for 14 straight weeks as the market rallied, according to data ...

Threat of Lehmannisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... according to national budget balances - savers and big, big spenders...US and UK raise your hands. Lehmannisation of the US. Bloomberg reported that big US bond holders - China, Japan, Russia and Brazil) - are looking into shifting their reserves from ...

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... billion of taxpayers' money. No names were mentioned on which banks are queuing up at the Treasury cashier to pay. But Bloomberg reports that 'JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, American Express Co., Bank of New York Mellon Corp., BB&T Corp., Capital ...

Easing Libor pains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... Reuters/University of Michigan index of home-buying conditions - released last week - which jumped to 161 in May from 146 in April. Bloomberg reports that this level is equal to the index's 2002 to 2004 average - the period when housing was booming. ...

Adviser portfolios add commodities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... commodities investments 16-fold to US$7.2 billion through 2010 as raw materials prices surge to records, according to Bloomberg reports.

Bank guarantee must stay in place

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... teams enjoyed a bumper March quarter, with domestic and international corporate bond issuance up strongly. According to Bloomberg's March quarter capital markets league tables, international bond issuance of US$31.6 billion was up more than 150 per cent ...

Away for Easter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... Yes, you read it right - took a breather. The S&P 500 dipped 0.8 per cent while the Dow stepped back just 0.5 per cent. Bloomberg and other news sources attributed last night's retreat primarily to Calyon Securities analyst Mike Mayo's advise to sell ...