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The stock market eked out a gain as investors took glum economic news in stride. The small gains still left stocks with a loss for the week but the Dow and S&P 500 logged their best month since November.









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Nearly a year after the stock market staged one of the biggest rallies in history, investors  worry that this bull may be getting wobbly. There’s no shortage of cause for concern.  







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THE fourth quarter earnings reporting season has so far achieved all that investors could have hoped for, but the good news has all been obscured by a wave of worrisome events from Washington and Beijing and Europe.
‘The corporate side of the stock market’s fundamental picture has been a true success story in the early going in 2010,’ said Nick Colas, chief market strategist at Convergex Group. ‘E… more

THE bottom fell out of the local stock market yesterday as a combination of fears took grip – worries over China’s bank lending restrictions which apparently could choke off a recovery, and an unstable Wall Street which has been rocked by fears of radical banking reforms.

Besides the twin fears, there was added pressure from a slight firming of the US dollar, raising ‘carry trade’ concerns where… more

The stock market rebounded from an early slide Tuesday as stronger consumer confidence boosted hopes for the economy.







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SINGAPORE’S warrants market took a beating last year, as risk-averse investors steered well clear of these volatile instruments amid the financial crisis.
Turnover for warrants, which had become immensely popular in recent years, fell steeply to 2005 levels.
These instruments are linked to movements of other assets, mainly stocks or stock market indexes. One attraction is that they are cheaper tha… more

(SINGAPORE) The stock market in 2009 may have regained much of the ground lost during the US sub-prime bear market of 2008, but the same cannot be said of the structured warrants market.

There, turnover last year sank to $10.9 billion, down by half from 2008 and by 61 per cent from 2007’s all-time high of $28 billion.

Such has been the drop in interest that the once-promising segment’s 2009 tu… more

A disappointing jobs report couldn’t stop the stock market from having a strong start to the new year.









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China said that it would permit stock index futures, short selling and trading on margin, making its capital market system more sophisticated.

The stock market faces a big test as 2010 trading gets under way: whether its performance will be lifted by the phenomenon known as the January effect, or squelched by uncertainty.







Stock market – Business – Investing – Stocks and Bonds – Equities