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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
The Australian market looks set to open lower, after Wall closed more than one per cent down following an earlier rally. At 0709 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was down 49 points at 4,256. There is no economic news ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
In a month characterised by global economic doom and gloom, Australia has just received a very welcome fillip - trade mark applications by Australian businesses are up-to pre GFC levels and have broken through the 69,000 barrier. Even better news is ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
The Australian market looks set to open higher after world markets rallied on hopes the US Federal Reserve would respond to mounting signs of weakness in the global economy. At 0750 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract ...

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 ...