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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market's downward run continued to noon on Friday, after opening lower following losses on Wall Street overnight and disappointing profit results. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 45.2 points, or 1.01 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... institutional fund managers, who were on the sidelines due to uncertainty about the economy. Volume on the NYSE Arca, Nasdaq and American Stock Exchanges was 7.97 billion, compared to last year's daily average of 9.65 billion. US Treasuries prices rose ...

AMP Capital opens NY office

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... Capital Investors hopes to service its clients' increasing appetite for global mandates with the opening of a new North American Infrastructure office - making high profile recruitments to get things underway. "AMP Capital is one of the most experienced ...

Nightmare on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... week. So what are we meant to infer if they fall next week? That US economic growth is strengthening? If this is so, the American macro-economy is now behaving like the financial markets - up one day, down the next, up the day after. I've never heard ...

The Fed did it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Ouch! Now that hurt didn't it? Of course it did. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.8 per cent, the Dow fell by 2.5 per cent and the Nasdaq declined by 3 per cent. Not a good night overall. But why am I not surprised? As I've written just two days ago ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
You asked for it! Mo' money's in the mail. Bernanke bends to the markets. Just when we thought we've seen it all, along comes the Fed kowtowing to the whims of the financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... July details. Yes, that's it -- five paragraphs up. The average workweek increased. Earnings increased. Must be those American companies reporting better-than-expected second quarter earnings results. Nearly 80 per cent of those that reported so far ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... launches its retirement adequacy index in Sydney. Wesfarmers managing director Richard Goyder delivers a briefing at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia event in Perth. The Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum in Kalgoorlie concludes. On Tuesday ...

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
"Am I not pretty enough?" - Kasey Chambers This remains 2010's biggest question as we bade July bye bye. Just look at Wall Street's reaction over the weekend when America's real GDP results for the second quarter was released. What reaction? There was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... Oceanagold will release its second half results. Caltex Australia Ltd managing director Julian Segal will address the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia about "Fuelling a Brighter Future". The Australia Pacific Aviation Outlook summit continues ...