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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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... reasons, just as Group of Seven leaders were meeting in France on the debt crises and new warnings of slowdown and even recession. "It's very bad news for the markets. (Stark) was one of the most powerful elements at the ECB," Andrea Tueni of Saxo Bank ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... speech by US President Barack Obama in which he is expected to announce fresh measures to boost employment and stave off recession. The euro also benefited, climbing to $US1.4057 from $US1.3992 late in New York on Tuesday. The dollar fell to 77.38 yen ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... stocks tumbled about four per cent on Monday, with bank stocks hit particularly hard by acute tension over the risk of recession in leading economies and over eurozone debt. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies dropped 3.58 per cent to 5,102.58 ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... of the Treasury analysis say that "Contrary to the mining industry's claim it propped up Australia during the world recession, the [Treasury] report said mining added a modest 0.1 percentage points to economic growth over the nine-month period. Agriculture ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... rate was unchanged, a sign that many were nervous the world's largest economy could be at risk of slipping into another recession. Also on Friday, the US Federal Housing Finance Agency filed a law suit against the nation's largest banks, along with a ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... world economies are about to launch a wave of fiscal contraction that will drive down growth and push us into sustained recession. This means China's demand for Australian resources will in time slow faster than expected, the Commonwealth Treasury will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... were rattled by the debt-ceiling mess in Washington, Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States, fears of a new recession and Europe's sovereign debt crisis. "It was a very bad month, you want to forget it as quickly as possible," said Gregori ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... when deflation was rearing its ugly head. But this time, the jury is still out. True believers in the coming of another recession may disagree. They'll point to the myriads of indicators and the financial markets' gloomy mood to back up their beliefs. ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... rating downgrade is prompted by large budget deficits and the build-up in Japanese government debt since the 2009 global recession. Several factors" (in particular, the 11 March earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster) "make it difficult for Japan ...