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Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... significant enough to place a big question mark over the sustainability of the equity market rally that started in early March 2009. Will the unfolding events ultimately prove that what we witnessed over the past three months is just the bouncing of ...

Of bulls, bears and flatliners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... China and North Korea's missile launches complete the bear's recipe for - at the very least - a revisit to the lows of early March 2009. For the flatliners. A second half recovery is already in the price. Apart from the day-to-day gyrations, Wall Street ...

Up, Down, Flat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... US time -- over the past four days, proving optimism that we have already left behind the low of the lows back in early March 2009. The same message could be inferred from the even broader NYSE Composite Index - comprised of 3,500 stocks - which echoed ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... profits...they found an excuse. The same thing happened during big one-day falls on Wall Street since the S&P hit bottom in early March this year. For instance, the S&P 500 fell by 3.5 per cent on 30 March. The excuse - concerns over nationalisation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... an eight-month closing high of 10,135.82 reached last Friday, but is still nearly 38 per cent above a trough hit in early March. HONG KONG - The Hang Seng Index closed down 307.94 points, or 1.7 per cent, at 17,776.66. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket ...

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... been steadily gathering pace since hitting what is turning out to be the lowest point in the current bear cycle in early March 2009. Developed and emerging equities alike have rallied - and continue to rally - to this day. Sure there were days when the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... Despite a pullback this week, the Standard & Poor's 500 index is still up more than 30 per cent from its 12-year lows in early March. The Dow fell 129.91, or 1.54 per cent, to 8,292.13, after earlier falling as much as 201 points. The Standard & Poor's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... stock market is holding up, but it's not extending its massive rally, either. After hitting nearly 12-year lows in early March, the Dow rallied and hit 8,131 last Friday. It has been wobbling underneath that level ever since. On Thursday, the Dow rose ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... settle at 1,608.21. Traders had been looking for some pullback after the Dow jumped 24 per cent from a 12-year low in early March, led largely by a recovery in banking stocks. LONDON - European stock markets plunged on Monday amid fears over the US banking ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... body. As it is with our digestive tract, so it is with the equity markets. In a span of six weeks since their lows in early March this year, both the MSCI developed and emerging market indices have already rallied close to 26 per cent. During this period ...