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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... higher level of overall inflation would be transitory". While there had been "significant increases" in energy and other commodity prices that had boosted overall inflation, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members expected price increases would ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... involved in quantitative easing since much of that stayed locked up on bank balance sheets. Eisinger said he expected commodity prices to top out, helping emerging market stocks rally. "Most people aren't really aware that China and Brazil underperformed ...

Avoca patient on industrials evolution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... a heightened risk given typical short mine lives and high production costs. The managers said that generational high commodity prices are not sustainable in the long term but share markets continue to price this into small resource stocks. "It begs the ...

No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... April FOMC minutes, the Fed still believes that the recent rise in headline inflation is transitory. The recent drop in commodity prices gives credence to this view. There we have it. The Fed has spoken. We will be warned to head for the exits before ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open higher on Thursday, as a recovery in commodity prices sparked a more positive performance in share prices on Wall Street. On the ASX 24 at 0713 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 24 points ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... truth to the financial market saying, "sell in May, then go away." You've read about my positive views about falling commodity prices - they put downward pressure on inflation and ease the need for aggressive monetary policy tightening, thereby assuring ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... Poor's 500 index fell 8.30 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 1,329.47. The Nasdaq fell 46.16, or 1.6 per cent, to 2,782.31. Commodity prices were mostly lower. Oil prices fell $2.28 to settle at $US97.37 a barrel Monday as worries eased that Mississippi River ...

Super problems to short-change retirees

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... to think in accumulation terms not pension terms. He said a key worry was inflation. With the US printing money and commodity prices hitting record highs, he said it was a timely and topical issue. Even if inflation stuck at 2.5 per cent - well within ...

ASIC draft moves FEX closer to reality

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... equity products to marketplaces, with a particular focus on the development and listing of tradeable products within the commodity, energy and environmental asset classes. Yesterday ASIC released a consultation paper proposing new market integrity rules ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... was 14 points higher at 4,702. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed at a seven-week low after a slump in commodity prices, particularly oil and copper, weighed on the resources sector. In the US overnight, a small recovery took place in defensive ...