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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... said. Trichet indicated, however, that supportive stimulus measures must soon be unwound, prompting traders to buy the US dollar in a safe-haven stampede, pressuring oil futures lower. Energy stocks joined tech issues in the red. Energy stocks were among ...

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... Commodities Fall as Dollar Rebounds, Treasuries Gain". Yes, it had been that way since the GFC. The correlation between the US dollar and US equities - I guess you could extend that to all equities given that we all follow where Wall Street goes - had ...

Ganging up on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... interest rates very, very, very low and keeping on buying Treasury debt. Both of which are putting downward pressure on the US dollar. Naturally, America's neighbours are not happy because through the exchange rate, it is exporting its problems to them. ...

Battle of the bulge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... what to do. This would be like China committing hara-kiri (honourable suicide). For it would erode the value of its US dollar reserves. The premise is that an appreciation of the renminbi against the US dollar would correct the imbalance between the ...

Mickey money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... how I have began to worry that, in time, the trillions of dollars of US deficit spending could end in tears for the US dollar. In time, Wall Street (and the world) will begin to realise that the money they're playing with is Mickey Mouse-minted money. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... Thursday morning with the biggest stocks adding around one per cent. The Australian dollar gained ground against the US dollar following the release of October employment data. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 34 points, or 0.71 per ...

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... are re-liquifying the economic and financial systems, it's starting a crisis somewhere else. I talk of course, of the US dollar. The massive amount of leverage Uncle Sam now finds itself in is driving the value of its paper - the US currency -lower. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... gained 21.9 points, or 0.46 per cent, at 4,765.9. NEW YORK - The US stock market closed higher on Wednesday as a weaker US dollar lifted gold prices and Federal Reserve officials signalled that borrowing rates would remain low. The moves in the US dollar ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... decided last night to exchange some of their paper profits on equities and commodities into paper money, cover their US dollar shorts and sprinkle some back into US government bonds. Just another dull day on Wall Street. So while we wait for adrenalin ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... Average was lower in early trading but moved into positive territory during the afternoon session. A modest rebound in the US dollar on Tuesday weighed on stocks, as investors increased their buying of safe-haven assets such as the US dollar and US Treasuries. ...