OzRant for Friday, July 30th 2010
Bloody lungs – they ought to be outlawed. Them, and mucus membranes. Although I am a devout agnostic, it sometimes strikes me that animal innards are so poorly designed that they could only be the result of central planning. And so it is with lungs and such. I've spent the last five days wrestling with [...]
OzRant for Thursday, July 29th 2010
Ords slightly (0.13%) lower on below-average volume and losers dominate breadth stats by 1.2:1: sector indices mixed. The NZSE50 closed with a gain of 0.4% for the day. In Japan, the Nikkei225 is currently trading down 0.6% for the session; Hong Kong's Hang Seng is down 0.1%.The KOSPI has lost 0.1% so far today. Bah [...]
OzRant for Thursday, August 6th
All Ords posts solid 1.27% gain on below-average volume and breadth favours the gainers by 3.6:1: sector indices mixed. In Japan, the Nikkei225 has added 1.3% so far; Hong Kong's Hang Seng is showing a 0.5% gain.The KOSPI has added 0.4% for the session thus far.
OzRant for Thursday, July 30th
All Ords posts solid 1.13% gain; volume above average and breadth favours the gainers by 2.3:1: sector indices mixed. There is obviously a bunch of folks out there who just want the party to continue – but everyone with more than half a brain is either out or short. With the latest 5-year note auction [...]
OzRant for Wednesday, July 29th
Ords slightly lower; volume above average and losers dominate breadth stats: sectors mixed with a slight downside bias. So…if you buy a Compaq, you’re an idiot: their after-sales service is worse than useless. On the one I bought almost three weeks ago, the only keys on the bottom row that work are ‘b’ and ‘n’; [...]
OzRant for Tuesday, July 28th
All Ords up modestly; volume above average and breadth favours the gainers: sector indices mixed. I‘ve mentioned a dozen times that governments despise the internet, because of the fact that it permits the dissemination of information that government’s don’t want their livestock to be able to be aware of. And now we discover that AT&T [...]
OzRant for Friday, July 24th
All Ords up modestly (+0.54%); volume above average with breadth evenly split: sector indices mixed. NZSE50 up 40 points (1.4%); Nikkei around 9950 (up about 170, or 1.7%) and Hang Seng up just under 100 points to a little over 19900, having spiked early in the session to above 20k. Gold at $950 an ounce, [...]
OzRant for Thursday, July 23rd
All Ords up modestly; volume above average and breadth favours the gainers: sector indices mixed.Template for prefatory remarks… test test test gfdsjhkjlo fdasreryuikh test test test Ijust added this
OzRant for Wednesday, July 22nd
All Ords up modestly; volume above average and breadth favours the gainers: sector indices mixed. NZSE50 up about 1%, Nikkei up a little over 60 points (0.6%), and Hong Kong’s HSI up about 140 points to about 19650. Gold nudging $950, Oil above $65.50 (front month has changed to September… we need CLU9 at $66.30 to [...]
OzRant for Tuesday, July 21st
All Ords up modestly; volume above average with breadth evenly split: sector indices mixed.Template for prefatory remarks…
