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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... index shed 0.45 per cent to 6,567.36 points, while in Paris the CAC 40 inched down 0.05 per cent at 4,147.81 points. The Stoxx Europe 600, which tracks a basket of companies from across Europe, closed at its lowest point since late March. The euro climbed ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... sterilising the liquidity injected under the Securities Markets Programme." European equity markets jumped with joy! The Stoxx-50 index closed up 0.9% with the German DAX surging to an intra-day record high while and benchmark indices in Paris, Milan ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... finished the month in the green. Movin' on up. The S&P 500 index finished May 2.1% on the up (to a new record high); the Stoxx 600 up 1.9% (to 6-year highs); the FTSE-100 up 1.0%; the Nikkei-225 index up 2.3%; the Shanghai Composite up 0.6%. Even the ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... the VIX). But looking at the performance of the equity markets so far this year, investors appear not to be convinced: The Stoxx 600 index is up by just 4.1%; S&P 500 up by a mere 2.8%; the FTSE-100's up by 0.99%; and the Nikkei-225 down by 11.2% (but ...

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