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A Hopeful Investor Mood
March 14, 2013
European equities rose to their best levels since June 2008, emboldened ahead of a two-day summit of EU leaders in Brussels and by evidence of U.S. economic resilience in the face of fiscal spending cuts. There have been a slew of central bank interest rate announcements. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand retained a record […] More
Chinese Equities Hammered
March 4, 2013
Stocks in China fell 4.6% following the announcement late Friday of new property market curbs there. Share prices also dropped by 1.5% in Australian and Hong Kong, 1.2% in Taiwan, 1.0% in Indonesia, 0.9% in Singapore and 0.7% in South Korea. The official CFLP non-manufacturing purchasing managers index weakened to a 5-month low of 54.5 […] More
Calm before U.S. Sequestration
February 28, 2013
It doesn’t look like the sequestration, across-the-board U.S. federal spending cuts, will be averted. But equities are doing well, with overnight gains of 3.0% in China, 2.0% in Hong Kong, 2.7% in Japan, 1.7% in Indonesia, 1.6% in the Philippines, and 1.3% in Australia. In Europe, the Dax and Spanish Ibex are 0.8% higher. The […] More
