Posts Tagged ‘softness’
Worries over China property, Greece hang heavy on stocks
April 28th, 2010 | 
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Posted in Singapore Financial News | 
Tags: China, Derivatives, Europe, Greece, Hong Kong, Index, local market, market, opening, pennies, selling, softness, Straits, straits times index, Times, weakness, yesterday | 
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Market Weekly Wrap
The dollar found itself on the defensive against European currencies for much of the week, softness blamed on month- and quarter-end stop-loss orders. Several factors favored technical retracement in EUR/USD pair, which has seen an 800 pip Q1 quarter sell-off. Traders cited passive month/quarter end portfolio rebalancing, higher March inflation…
Posted in Forex Trading |
Tags: defensive, dollar, end, EUR, european currencies, inflation, March, month, pair, pip, portfolio, portfolio rebalancing, q1, quarter, retracement, sell-off, several factors, softness, stop-loss, USD, week |
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Push on banks helps STI rise 14.22 points
A PUSH on the banks helped the Straits Times Index yesterday rise 14.22 points to 2,707.6 in a tepid session that saw the broad market record 163 rises against 218 falls excluding derivatives.
The softness was not overly surprising given that the index had already risen sharply on Monday ahead of the US rally which meant that it made sense for investors to sell into strength yesterday. Providing a… more
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Tags: 163, banks, broad market, Derivatives, Index, investors, market, Monday, Providing, push, rally, record, rise, sense, session, softness, Straits, straits times index, strength, Times, US, yesterday |
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S&P 500 sees best 5-month streak since 1938 (Reuters)
Reuters – The S&P 500 ended its best five-month streak since 1938 with a slight gain on Friday as government data showed softness in consumer spending but reinforced expectations that the economic slump is abating.
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Tags: consumer, consumer spending, economic slump, Friday, gain, government, government data, Reuters, slump, softness, spending, streak |
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