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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
The Australian market is receiving strong, positive leads from offshore trading overnight. All key indices are higher, as are precious and base metals and oil. The Australian dollar briefly reached parity once more with the US dollar on Tuesday night. ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

QE2 still the main game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
There is really nothing much to report today. Wall Street rose... a bit. The US dollar depreciated... more than a bit. There were positive reports out overnight. The third quarter reporting season is good. More than 86 per cent of companies in the S&P ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
Heard at the G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju: blah, blah, blah... and more blah, blah, blah. As it always is when top authorities of the top nations meet, there's going to be too much chatter and too little done. Financial markets were right to expect that ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
Something out of the "new ordinary" happened overnight. Wall Street climbed at the same time that the US dollar exchange rate went up. My trusted data source - Bloomberg - reported that, "The dollar strengthened against 13 of 16 major counterparts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with European equities markets strong, while Wall Street was flat to mixed. Commodities were lower and the US dollar rose. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0702 AEDT, the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was 1.3 per cent lower in intra-day trading, with offshore currency plays and China's surprise interest rate hike weighing on the market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 63.6 points, or 1.37 per cent ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
You can almost hear the Wall Street's collective hallelujahs after the US Federal Reserve reported an unexpected fall in industrial production. And no, that is not a typo. Wall Street was actually happy that it was disappointed. Huh? Yes, you read correctly. ...

Van Eyk completes China review

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
Researcher van Eyk has given Chinese equities a "high-medium" risk rating in its first review of the market. "Compared with developed equities markets, the Chinese equities market tends to exhibit higher volatility and its performance is driven more ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
"...there would appear--all else being equal--to be a case for further action." With these words, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke virtually ensured that Christmas is coming in November - no ifs, ands, buts or maybes. At least, that's what financial ...