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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... Currency dealer Tony Darvall said investors were taking profits ahead of the release of US Non-Farm Payroll figures on Friday night (Australian time). "We've had a slight pullback on that profit-taking,"he said. Mr Darvall said markets had received little ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... strong demand for Spain's a,-4.56 bil auction and France's a,-8B auction of 10-years - and at lower interest rates - last night. Take that Standard & Poor's! Why wait when we've already seen the ADP report showing that private sector jobs in the jumped ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... gains," IG Markets' strategist Stan Shamu said. "We expect to see initial weakness in the resource space after a fairly tough night for commodities." At 1028 AEDT on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 4.9 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 4,256.8 ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... doomed (again)! Oh-em-gee! "IMF slashes growth forecasts!" This was the last piece of news I saw before I went to bed last night and started snoring. Yeah, yeah I thought. Sure, sure. Somehow it didn't give me the same nerve-wracking punch that previous ...

So far so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... disbelief, look to Europe young man. Yes, Europe - the region that's the source of angst that's keeping most investors awake at night. It's on the brink of a recession (if not already in one). Its economy is being squeezed by severe fiscal austerity ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... is why every bit of good news serves to provide a positive shock to the system. And there were also plenty of them last night. US jobless claims plunged by 50,000 to a less-than-expected 352,000 (only a tad higher than the level of claims recorded before ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... I and government and finance authorities - and Irene -- are already aware of these. And they're taking action. Just last night for instance, the IMF was reported to be looking to boost its lending resource to US$500 billion just in case (Europe worsens). ...

FINRA relaxes social media controls

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
Australian financial planners may see some of their social media compliance issues lessen if Australian regulators follow FINRA's lead, after the US regulator proposed changes to its rulings to allow planners to communicate through social media without ...

Get up and go on board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... went on a chopping spree of Europe's nine sovereigns last week and the EFSF just two days ago. And there were more last night. In its semi-annual Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank (WB) cautioned that, "An escalation of the [European] crisis ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
Standard & Poor's was at it - slashing - again last night. After lopping off one A out of France's and Austria's AAA credit rating at the end of last week, it did the same for the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). According to S&P: "We consider ...