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US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... technical default on its debt. The clean debt ceiling bill is also likely to reinforce growing confidence in the US economic recovery that combined with the bond tapering is seeing sustained recovery in the USD. In reaction, however, downward pressure ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... interest rates anytime soon. Forget the January employment report that showed the jobless rate falling to 6.6% because "the recovery in the labor market is far from complete" and that the Fed "would be looking at a broad range of data on the labor market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... retained small gains despite disappointing data showing the US economy is not adding many jobs despite an accelerating recovery. At close, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended the day up 0.20 per cent at 6,571.68 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 rose 0.49 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... main stock markets fell solidly as traders remain unfazed by the lack of action at the ECB, while banking on further recovery in the eurozone. The European Central Bank held its key interest rates steady at 0.25 per cent with bank head Mario Draghi brushing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
The Australian sharemarket has staged a moderate recovery to buck a negative lead from the US overnight. After spending three consecutive days in the red, stocks were up two-thirds of a per cent soon after the open. This is despite Wall Street having ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... Report - this coming Friday. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), a strong report would support the "the US economic recovery remains in track" crowd. Bets are in that 189,000 more Americans found jobs in January and the unemployment rate to remain ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... 1.69 per cent, to 5,114.1. NEW YORK - US stocks closed higher after some solid corporate results helped spark a partial recovery from the prior day's rout. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 72.44 points (0.47 per cent) to 15,445.24. The broad-based ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... down, the Dow ended 2.1% lower, the Nasdaq finished 2.6% in the red as fresh eco stats put a big question mark on the US recovery. The ISM manufacturing index fell to a reading of 51.3 in January - a razor sharp 5.2-point drop from December's 56.5 reading ...

Brookvine inks US micro cap deal

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... investors, consultants and other interested parties. "Micro cap stocks performed exceptionally well in 2013 amidst the gradual recovery of the US economy and the weaning negative sentiment towards equities," Cuesta said. "Conditions remain very favourable. ...

Europe a 'running sore' on global economy: Probyn

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... emerge from 18 months of recession, he said the real issue was the mismatch between the various economies. He said the recovery in the eurozone was of a different nature to that, for example, in the US. "In the eurozone it is difficult to see how they ...