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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... All Ordinaries gained 78.1 points, or 2.29 per cent, to 3,483.1. NEW YORK - Wall Street got the news it wanted on the US economy's biggest problems - banks and housing - and responded with a rally that propelled the Dow Jones industrials up nearly 500 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... the financial sector, and following a rally on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve announced plans to revive the US economy. At 1206 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 25.3 points higher, or 0.73 per cent, at 3471.6, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... rallied after the Federal Reserve announced its plan to buy $US1 trillion ($A1.51 trillion) of bonds in a bid to pull the US economy out of a severe recession. At 0647 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was up 22 points ...

The power of optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... negativism to optimism. Wall Street virtually put one of their respective guru's - Warren Buffett - pronouncement that the US economy is in shambles behind it and instead focused on the good. The good came in the form of Citigroup's leaked memo that ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... similar level for the S&P 500. These predictions, and apparently Warren Buffet's -- the 'sage of Omaha' - remark that the US economy 'has fallen off a cliff' sent Wall Street down again last night. Why no one picked up on his follow-up statement that ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... Admittedly, investors place a high regard for Mr. Buffet but they already know - and you and I already know - that the US economy is in shambles. The US President, the US Treasury Secretary and the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve have all made statements ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... Australian share market is likely to open lower after data on Friday showed a deeper-than-anticipated contraction in the US economy, prompting a slump in share prices there. At 0724 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... overnight, he remarked that, 'significant stresses remain in many markets' and predicted that full recovery of the US economy would take more than 2-3 years. Bu this would be true only 'if actions taken by the administration, the Congress, and the Federal ...

Treasuries still strong: ML

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... sector drive yield rates to levels not seen in a long time. "We're still very positive on Treasuries. "We think that the US economy will grow at sub-trend over the next couple of years at least. And as a result that would probably lead to enhance the ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... behaviour to keep the 'American Dream' alive. The financial markets verdict is that this again would be unable to stop the US economy from the recession America had to have. Time and again since the days of the Maestro - Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan - ...