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Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... both during and since the global financial crisis. Throughout that time, Australia has not only avoided falling into recession, but has been the best performing of the world's developed market economies. Australia's position within the global financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... with about $18 billion wiped from the value of listed companies as investors fretted about the possibility of a global recession. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 indexfell 61.7 points, or 1.56 per cent, to 3,903.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Bulls see red

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... over the past 24 hours. As I've been warning the past few weeks, the global economy is weakening, the odds of another recession has increased and this is sapping every bit of confidence left among governments, businesses, investors and households. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... Fund lowered its growth forecasts for the global economy to four per cent for 2011 and 2012, and warned of a return to recession if Western leaders fail to get their economies back on track. "It is a bit of a patchy market today, there's more sectors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... funds. Earlier, the IMF set an ultimatum for Greece to implement a long delayed privatisation programme and forecast recession in Greece for all of 2012. HONG KONG - Asian stocks and the euro fell after European finance heads failed to agree on a plan ...

Psychological asset classes run investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... world is going to end and at least they will have the debt of the US government." Swanson said that if there is another recession then the US government would not have enough tax money to pay off its debt, leaving investors in the cold. "In effect they ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... his expectations for a "virtual standstill" in the European economy in the second half of this year, although "not a recession". But I wonder how much fudging went into his macro econometric model to come up with 0.2% growth in the third quarter and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... "deteriorated" with the crisis contributing to slowing growth in the second half of the year, but Brussels stressed no recession was in sight. HONG KONG - Stock markets mostly rose in Asia after France and Germany stood behind Greece. Tokyo gained 1.75 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... German impatience with Greek debt woes and fears over French banks compounded worries that the world is set for another recession, analysts said. French banking shares dived more than 10 per cent on concerns that Moody's credit rating agency might downgrade ...

Local instos eye US equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... the highest prices. They may offer a place to hide out temporarily but if the markets wake up and see that it isn't in recession, as I think they will, there will be a tremendous rush to equities and you want to be have some foothold in the US quality ...