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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... Price Index of 20 cities showed prices rose for the fifth straight month in June, by 1.0 per cent. LONDON - European equities retreated as investors wait to see if US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke will outline economic stimulus measures. The euro ...

Lonsec urges advisers to revisit EMs

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... prompted a stint of head scratching for many emerging market investors due to the nonsensical reality of US and European equities outperforming emerging markets, while the economic fundamentals across both categories were in such divergence," said Steven ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... deficit for June fell for the third straight month as exports continued to climb while imports decreased. LONDON - European equities posted mixed performances as Chinese data lifted hopes that Beijing would loosen monetary policy further and US trade ...

Lost

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... night, it's lowered growth forecasts headlined as the underlying rational behind the dip on Wall Street and European equities. But even the IMF doesn't know. You know how I know that it doesn't know? It changed its mind in three out of three quarters. ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
Where are they now? Those hard landing-ers? Wall Streets and European equities jumped 1.7% and 1.4%, respectively - on the final day of last week's trading as markets welcomed news that China's economy slowed "as expected" to 7.6% in the year to the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... ending July 7. That was a decrease of 26,000 from the prior week's upwardly revised number of 376,000. LONDON - European equities sank and the euro hit a new two-year US dollar low, as sentiment was jarred by spiking Spanish bond yields and eurozone ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... were able to celebrate Greece's decision to be tortured inside the euro rather than outside it, Wall Street and European equities didn't even get a look in on, this, the first trading day after the Greek vote. Wall Street ended flat with the Dow down ...

Investors missing the eurozone silver lining

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... global competitors in various industries around the world, many of which happen to be headquartered in Europe. "European equities, according to our analysis in April, are the cheapest of any major global region and near the cheapest ever relative to ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... days would continue. Yes Virginia, we got volatility all right but the optimism didn't last. Wall Street and European equities gave back the big gains they made only yesterday - and then some - as fresh polls in Greece show the anti-bailout party has ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... 1.11 per cent, to 1,338.35. The tech-rich Nasdaq dropped 31.24 points, or 1.06 per cent, to 2,902.58. LONDON - European equities have slumped and the euro has tumbled to its lowest point since January, with markets hit by mounting fears over the eurozone ...