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Asian markets level out but investors still edgy over Greece 
Global Markets Snapshot: Last week's shocker with widespread selling and extended losses moved into Monday's early intraday trading. Nearly all 2012 gains have been wiped out in the market's worst performance since September 2011. The ASX for example was typical of Asian markets last week down 5.6 pct. Asian markets however started to close in the green late yesterday. Newsat etched out a 1 cent gain AU$0.64 -655 and PanAust put on 3 ½ cents to edge up at AU$2.745 but rising on volumes towards AU$2.76.
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May 17 , 2012
EDL-Gen rides the waves
Vientiane: EDL-Gen volumes re-emerged in mixed trading. The LSX index plunged 34 points in the opening session when EDL-Gen traded down -200 kip for 4,800 kip per share in sessions 1, 2, 3 and 5. But that was short lived as the stock closed at 5,000 kip by the 4th and 6th closing yesterday on much stronger volumes than the previous day's 339 shares.
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May 16 , 2012
Turnover at LSX lower for 3rd straight session
Vientiane: Resistance set in as turnover faded for EDL-Gen. BCEL had a good volumes day in an uninspiring session. The LSX set the pace when it opened on some small trades with EDL-Gen up 100 kip to 5050 kip but then down 50 kip on a handful of stocks.
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May 15 , 2012
Greece continues to unsettle markets
European shares were called to open lower on Monday, with Greece looking almost certain to be headed for fresh elections and Angela Merkel's conservatives failed to win back power in Germany's most populous state on Sunday. More >>>
May 14 , 2012
Investors seek safety in US dollar
Global Markets:
Sell in May' seems to be the current old time stock market adage. More >>>
May 12 , 2012
Markets have mixed week, stage minor comeback Friday
Global Markets:
Despite the past 3 years of bad news, Asian indexes all have positive linear graph growth lines and remain in great shape since December. There may have been a slight pullback in the past week but it's temporary. More >>>
May 11 , 2012
EU markets and €uro fall on rising dollar
The US dollar strengthened again, impacting on Gold, Oil and Metals prices this week. More >>>
May 10 , 2012
Markets remain mixed and lost
US markets went tumbling M shape on Tuesday as did European stock markets, which plummeted. The euro fell against the US dollar, with sentiment dominated by uncertainty in the euro zone after weekend elections in France and Greece.
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May 9 , 2012
Choppy markets reclaim lost ground
Black Monday greeted investors this week in economic, political and market turmoil, causing indexes to lose ground.
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May 8 , 2012
Black Monday greets investors
Vientiane: The market cooled yesterday as it does on a lot of Mondays, with much lower turnover than last week's bulky trades. More >>>
May 7 , 2012
Markets, oil, gold and currencies fall as greenback firms
The US dollar extended its 4 day rally on Friday. The GBP is gaining on the €uro and the US$. However the AUD Dollar faces its weakest week of the year. The Australian dollar was trading near multi-week lows on Friday as the prospect of more rate cuts weighed. More >>>
May 5 , 2012
Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
That's our assessment of the average investor's current market sentiment and it's nervousness that appears totally justified, if you confine your observations to fundamental economics. More >>>
May 4 , 2012
US job data a storm in a teacup
GLOBAL MARKETS:
US Indexes: Again the indexes rise and fall. This time the fall was blamed on poor US employment data. That's a weak and very poor excuse. Think about it - since when did the unemployed trade (buy/sell) stocks? So ignoring that news, tomorrow maybe the markets will reverse on some other excuse. More >>>
May 3 , 2012
EDL-Gen April turnover exceeded US$1m
Vientiane: EDL-Gen resumes today having already traded a stellar month of 1.7 million stocks for just over US$1 million for April.
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May 2 , 2012
EU market storms approaching
US Indexes: Markets went ying yang again with a slight decrease of less than 1 percent, when Apple declined 3 percent. Occupy Wall Street and May Day marches kept investors away on Tuesday. The Indexes on Tuesday reversed Monday's losses and the DJIA signaled a US economic recovery as it gained 66 points (5 pct) to a 4 year high The S&P500 gained 0.6 percent and the NASDAQ 0.1 percent. More >>>
May 2 , 2012
EDL-Gen surge powers on
Vientiane: Turnover faded to Friday's close but was still strong. More >>>
April 30, 2012
- Market edges higher
Vientiane: The market recorded a good groundswell of volumes on Friday for both stocks. EDL-Gen continues its good turnover with support for larger parcels of stock.
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April 27, 2012
- BCEL late entry dips 100 kip
Vientiane A bit of sparring occurred with 2400 EDL-Gen shares unchanged at 5,000 kip in the first session and 10K in the second close. EDL-Gen yesterday lost an insignificant 50 kip and BCEL 100 kip but on extremely low volumes and both trades were no real market sentiment indicator. More >>>
April 26, 2012
- BCEL support continues but market pauses
Vientiane Trading eased yesterday was to be expected following up on two great previous opening days. Stocks retraced on lower volumes but the index improved just above the physiological 1,000 point mark gaining 14.30 points to 1032.22. Only 23,577 traded shares well down from the previous 2 days 154K traded stocks. More >>>
April 25, 2012
- BCEL fires up trading
BCEL fires up trading Vientiane Turnover was up 9.13 pct but on almost identical volumes yesterday. Monday's well above average opening turnover of US$99.368 signaled momentum would build this week. More >>>
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