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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... economic recovery. European stock markets rallied while the euro fell against the dollar, as a trend sparked by the EU's surprise deal was underpinned by anticipation of a European Central Bank (ECB) rate cut. Locally, the mining giants were marginally ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Yeah, yeah& tell that to the marines! This was a saying I picked up in high school when I was doing my compulsory military service. The marines don't believe anything, they don't ask why, they simply do or die. This quip came to mind as I surf cyberspace ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... 2009. LONDON - European stock markets rallied while the euro fell against the dollar, as a trend sparked by last week's surprise EU deal was underpinned by anticipation of an ECB rate cut, analysts say. Focus was also on the banks, as Barclays chairman ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... European stock markets surged and the euro jumped against the US dollar after a key European Union (EU) summit delivered surprise emergency measures to fight the eurozone debt crisis. Australian Stock Report head of research Geoff Saffer said the local ...

Can this latest kick of the can can?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
Spectacularly fantabolous! This was the financial markets' reaction to Europe's kinder surprise on the last day of the last trading week of the last month of the second quarter. Wall Street gained big time - the Dow ended 2.2% up, the S&P 500 closed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... cent. LONDON - European stock markets surged and the euro jumped against the US dollar after a key EU summit delivered surprise emergency measures to fight the eurozone debt crisis. In Frankfurt the DAX 30 rose 4.33 percent to 6,416.28 points and Paris' ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... Bloomberg, please stop! For this is just the usual case of investors (nay, speculators) not wanting to get whipsawed by a surprise QE - or whatever counter measure - announcement following a big drop in equity prices. Certainly, S&P/Case Shiller composite ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... over vodkas this time instead of tequilas. And who could forget another of last week's dashed expectations. No kinder surprise from the Fed, just the obligatory extension of the twist. Yes, Big Ben was obliged to maintain the status quo else there'll ...

Premium China expands distribution team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... overnight," Wu said. "People who are in what they thought were low risk income funds or yield funds will have a very nasty surprise. Over the last five years yield funds have done particularly well and outperformed equities - that's on the back of the ...

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... last night, after being up the previous day and down the day before. This sawtooth trading pattern hardly comes as a surprise given the great uncertainty over the outcome of the Greek elections. Thankfully - rather, hopefully - we'll all be put out of ...