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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
The Australian sharemarket has received positive leads from US equity markets, although declines in the precious metal and oil markets may drag on some stocks. On the ASX 24 at 0854 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was seven points ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... me but Wall Street. It's performance over the past few days suggest that it still can't make up its mind. The US equity market rose and fell during intra-day sessions but mostly hugged the zero line on closings over the past few days. It's conflicted. ...

Demystifying the "flash crash"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
A new theory argues that a large single trade in futures markets did not cause the "flash crash" of May 6 where US equity markets dramatically declined and recovered in a matter of minutes. In a recent inquiry into the abnormal market behaviour, the ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... month have pushed up the S&P 500 index up by 9.4 per cent and the Dow by an equally strong 8.4 per cent. The US equity market has not done bad - not bad at all -- given many experts' loud wailing over the likelihood of a US double-dip, fears over the ...

Indian pension funds poised for growth

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Recent reforms to India's pension system could foster a "shareholder society" that will underpin the country's equity markets for years to come, market watchers say. India, like most emerging market economies, has no universal retirement safety net. ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
Move on people, there wasn't a lot of shaking that went on in Wall Street last night. The US equity market closed almost as flat as pancake after the US Commerce Department released the latest update on retail sales that - once again - could be interpreted ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... market volume - the breaking of this psychological resistance level should go a long way towards propelling the US equity market further up. The 11K mark is important because as one report puts it, "11000 hasn't often been crossed in the past." And as ...

Weight in gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
There's a new twist in the tale of what we thought to be the ended saga of the GFC. The US equity market's - and by extension most other stock market's - performance over the past few weeks perfectly underscored what I've been trying to convey in my ...

Carpe Diem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... more sitting on the sidelines now. Got to be in it to win it. Some have already missed out on the jackpot. The US equity market has already earned around 60 per cent to early believers. But there's still plenty to go around. And where Wall Street goes ...

Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... arguments for any case - good, bad or ugly - could be divined. If you believe the media, part of the reason why the US equity market rose overnight was because US interest rates - specifically the yield on US 10-year Treasuries - fell while we were sleeping. ...