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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... its banking system and avoid a new eurozone crisis also clouded trade, after pushing European markets lower -- the Euro Stoxx 50 blue-chip market fell 1.6 per cent Monday. LONDON - European stock markets fell Monday amid more bad news for indebted Spain ...

No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... correct all along - that Europe's far from leaving the emergency ward. 'Twas an expensive reminder though with the Euro Stoxx 50 index dropping by 2.9% overnight. Wall Street's losses were more contained - the S&P 500 index closed down 0.84% after falling ...

What Wen wants, Wen gets, when Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... was only a softer tone. Really? Wall Street closed higher, European stocks were down, but by just a flimsy 0.04% (DJ/Euro Stoxx-50), the Nikkei-225 and the S&P/ASX 200 both fell by 0.4% - not outside the realm of their daily heartbeats. As for commodities ...

Good bacteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... has always been with anything to do with Greece. The uncertainty hit a high point Tuesday last week, pulling the DJ Euro Stoxx index down by 3.4% - its biggest one-day drop since November last year. What happens in Greece... However, America wasn't so ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... dropped by more than 200 points while we were sleeping but this was a mere 1.6% slip, less than half the 3.4% the DJ Euro Stoxx-50 lost overnight. So my money is on Europe. And yes, it's all about Greece again and the possibility that it may default ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... S&P 500 index did - up 0.62% from down 0.47% the previous day. And so did, the Nasdaq. And European equities, the DJ Euro Stoxx-50 surged by 1.5% at the close of last night's activity, completely making up for the previous night's 0.3% dip - and then ...

Good not great

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... one that's little affected by the European sovereign debt crisis? What? What? What? Speaking of which, even the DJ Euro Stoxx index - the benchmark for the region in crisis which is widely expected to go into recession (if it's not there yet) - has done ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... market certainly thinks so. To date, the Athex Composite price index has risen by close to 20%, outperforming the DJ Euro Stoxx index's 9.5% rise over the same period. And oh, the yield on its 10-year bonds has also come down by more than 200 bips from ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
... in three years and the fifth consecutive month of decline in the jobless rate. There were cheers all around. The DJ Euro Stoxx-50 index closed 1.5% higher and the FTSE-100 jumped by 1.8%, ignoring reports that Greece and its creditors are still refusing ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... announced, investors wait with bated breaths. Despite the intra-day volatility in the European equity market - the DJ Euro Stoxx Index seesawed between plus 1.7% and down 1.8% -- it ended, in what we consider practically unchanged these days, down 0.5% ...