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Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... Street's positive reaction overnight is not that convincing -- Dow up by 0.06% and the S&P 500 by 0.24% -- more so Europe's - Stoxx 50 index up 0.02%. China's Shanghai Composite index is not convinced at all -- down 0.18%. What gives? What gives is that ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... commitment to also using unconventional instruments within its mandate." Financial markets saw that it was good. The Euro Stoxx 50 index climbed by 0.5% and bond yields fell. Italian 10-year bond yields dropped to as low as 3.25% -- the lowest since ...

First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... All Ordinaries index gained all of 0.6% since the start of the year; the S&P 500 index up 0.2% over the same period; the Stoxx-600 up 0.8%. The FTSE-100 and the Nikkei-225 may have stirred bit more over the period - down 2.5% and 11.1%, respectively ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... more than recovering the 0.74% it lost as Putin "exercised". So did the FTSE-100 index - up 1.7% from down 1.5%. The Euro Stoxx 600 is off by just 0.2% over the past two days - up 2.1% from down 2.3%. The All ordinaries index is down all of 0.1% over ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... points of the Chinese economy in the past two years." Amber. That's the flashing light for the Eurozone equities. The Euro Stoxx 50 index barely budged (up 0.03% overnight). This is because Markit's flash PMI reading for the region was neither here nor ...

In praise of the gloom and doomers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014

What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013

'Tis the season to be bubbly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... These positive developments and outlook make it hardly surprising to witness gains in the region's equity markets.A The Stoxx Europe 600 index has risen by 9.4% this year to date with the broad index's gains also reflected in strong performances in individual ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... EOFY'. For the index is up 15.5% at the end of the 2012/2013 FY. Not too far from the S&P 500's 17.9% gain and more than the Stoxx 600's 13.5% increase and the FTSE-100's 11.6% climb over the same period. Yes Virginia, we can again count ourselves lucky ...