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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... Kong were also adopting a cautious attitude ahead of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress, starting Saturday, for signs of any changes in policy direction. Hong Kong was weighed by HSBC after investors were unimpressed by its outlook ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... 9.6 per cent in October. But have no fear, the Fed is here. Cyberspace was full of it when I was reading the spins last Saturday morning. Their overriding theme was that, the soft jobs data means that more money would be dropping out of Big Ben's helicopter. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... said the trading week had started very positively, with the local bourse boosted by strong economic data from China on Saturday. Consumer inflation in China rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years in August, but its National Bureau of Statistics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... Street lifted as a better-than-expected wholesale inventory report boosted confidence in the US economy. China reported on Saturday that consumer inflation rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years in August, the 10th consecutive month the consumer ...

Nothing to fear in hung parliament

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
The financial services industry is still digesting the ramifications of Saturday's election cliffhanger, which has given Australia its first hung parliament since 1940. "It certainly does leave the industry in limbo at the moment," said Fiona Reynolds ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... finger-pointing, spins, recriminations, soul searching, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera that preceded and followed last Saturday's Australian elections. Like many of you, I stayed up till the wee hours of Sunday morning only to find out that us Australians ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... and financial sectors and as the market anticipated the announcement of the date of the federal election, announced on Saturday as August 21. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 19.9 points, or 0.45 per cent, at 4,422.7 points, while the broader ...

Drunk futures broker banned

FSA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... Perkins traded without client authorisation in the early hours of the Tuesday morning after drinking heavily between Saturday and Monday in June 2009. He traded an "extremely high volume" of Brent contract and, as a result, accumulated a long outright ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... 20,912.18 points. Turnover was 90.19 billion Hong Kong dollars ($A13.17 billion). The People's Bank of China said on Saturday it would "strengthen the flexibility" of the currency, which some analysts saw as a sign Beijing was ready to scrap the US dollar ...

Too clever by half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... Warren Buffett defended Goldman Sachs Group Inc." Goldman according to Buffet. At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting last Saturday, Warren strongly defended Goldman Sachs, saying he doesn't believe Goldman acted improperly and that the Abacus deal involved ...