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added: 07-05-2008

Market down 27, financials down 1.7% and resources up 0.9% with oil hitting all time inter-day record and closing $3.65 at $119per barrel. SFE Futures predicted a 3 point fall in the market this morning.

NYSE Euronext Business Summary for April 2008

added: 06-05-2008

NYSE Euronext reported strong transaction volume growth across most of its products and exchanges compared to the same period in 2007 and year-to-date.

The USD Hit a Five Week High

added: 05-05-2008

A solid finish in the US on Friday night as slightly better than expected jobs figures, manufacturing data and a rise in the US dollar combined to push markets higher.

US IPO Pipeline Watches and Waits

added: 02-05-2008

Potential IPO registrants are waiting for increased clarity and hoping for market momentum to carry them forward. According to the quarterly Ernst & Young LLP US IPO Pipeline Report, the first quarter of 2008 watched the wave of 2007 begin to flatten.

Corn, Rice And Oil Seeds Prices Going Up

added: 28-04-2008

So, has the surge gone out of the urge to push world grain prices, especially wheat, higher? While corn, rice and oil seeds like soybeans remain at near record levels, world wheat prices, perhaps the most accurate barometer of sentiment in global grain and food markets, have plunged 40% from the all time high in February and are now at a six month low.

World Markets: Bond Markets Still Waiting For The Rescue

added: 28-04-2008

Either bond markets have taken leave of their collective senses, or they too are smelling the re-emergence of animal spirits among investors in equity markets. A month ago markets were warily waiting for the next disaster to hit after the Bear Stearns rescue: but $US100 billion worth of capital raisings by banks and other financial stocks in the US and Europe, the Fed's $US360 billion 28 day money Term Auction Facility funding liquidity in the US markets, and the Bank of England $US100 billion facility to support the UK banking sector, and its becoming a case of 'gloom, what gloom?'

Oil Hit a Record High of $US119.90 a Barrel

added: 28-04-2008

BP has shut a pipeline that carries 30% to 40% of the oil produced in the UK because of a strike at a refinery in Scotland that supplies power to the system. Gas from dual producing fields will also be stopped by the company because of the stoppage.

US Stock Market: Tech Sector up 1.4%

added: 24-04-2008

Market down 77 on profit taking ahead of long weekend and perhaps in reaction to a market that went up 88 yesterday on a 104 point fall in Wall St. Option expiry may have something to do with it. Financials down 1.7% after strong rise yesterday post the ANZ results. Resources down with Woodside and Newcrest both struggling. Light volumes today.

Investor Confidence Index Falls from 77.2 to 72.8 in April 2008

added: 23-04-2008

Global Investor Confidence fell by 4.4 points to 72.8 from a revised March level of 77.2. Amongst North American investors, confidence fell 4.9 points from 83.2 to 78.3. European investors were even more pessimistic, and their risk appetite declined by from 87.7 to 76.8. Asian investors, however, were somewhat less gloomy and their confidence saw only a modest decline from 87.9 to 86.2.

American Consumers are Being Belted by Rising Energy and Food Costs

added: 18-04-2008

Sometimes Wall Street resembles the Titanic, before it met an iceberg that didn't like it. Brokers, analysts, fund managers and the like dancing and twirling the night away, ignoring the gathering storm that only the Fed and some of its acolytes in small dark rooms can see.

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