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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
The Australian market looks set to open flat on Wednesday, if it follows Tuesday's local trend and after only a 20 point rise on the US market overnight. At 0719 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was down 14 points ...

Bonds, where the real money is

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
World equity markets hold only $57 trillion, one-third less than the $90 trillion in world bond markets, so it might be time we paid a bit more attention to where the real money is. Like how despite the frenzy for more debt as governments scrambled ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
The Australian dollar is slightly higher as optimism grows that the Eurozone will issue its own bonds in a bid to ease sovereign debt crisis. At 0700 (AEST) on Monday, the Australian dollar was trading at 103.85 US cents, up from 103.75 cents on Friday. ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
Are we there yet? This question seems to be in everyone's mind at the moment. There here means an American recession and perhaps a European one. I must admit that despite checking up on the indicators that the US National Bureau of Economic Research ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... president Herman van Rompuy. The eurozone had posted meagre 0.2 per cent second quarter growth, dragged down by a decline in German performance and a stagnant France economy. Lifting risk sentiment during the session was better than expected industrial ...

A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... lynchpin, the tower of strength, that's keeping some semblance of hope in the Eurozone - barely grew in the second quarter. German real GDP inched up by a mere 0.1% in the second quarter. This is lower than market expectations for a 0.5% expansion and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... building approvals figures in the US. The Australian dollar would take direction from the euro, which would rise on a positive German GDP result. "A good GDP print will be good for the euro and we could potentially have the Aussie trading at 105.50 in ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... Euro Stoxx-50 dropped by 6.1% at the close with equity gauges in the core countries of the Eurozone dropping big time. The German DAX index lost 5.1%; France's CAC-40 index gave up 5.4%; Italy's MIB index plunged 6.7%. And across the North Sea, the (literally) ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
When the going gets tough, the Fed gets going. Ok, ok. I was wrong - no need to throw it back at my face. I expected the US Federal Reserve to provide a circuit breaker in the form of a third QE. I was wrong! Big Ben did this small Ben one better. B-I-N-G-O! ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
The Australian stock market is expected to follow Wall Street into another day of steep declines, after New York indices all plunged by around six per cent overnight. At 0721 AEST on the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was 153 ...