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Bargain hunters instigate in as sharemarket holds in negative territory

THE Australian sharemarket remained mired in red ~ means of early afternoon but was off its lows as some investors tentatively sought bargains.

The Australian dollar likewise picked up off its lows and was trading back above US85 cents ~ means of the same time.

In a mid-year update, fund manager Fidelity International reported conditions for equities would be more appealing in the second moiety before a strong rally in 2011.

“Valuations are still well adapted and I believe there will be good buying opportunities later in the year,” related Trevor Green, Fidelity’s international director of asset allocation, in a report.

“So, investors who missed out on the first leg of the taurus market may find themselves presented with attractive entry points in the to come months.

“While the pace of the recovery will slow into 2011, global expansion remains strong and I believe we are unlikely to see a double-dip recession.

“There faculty of volition be a number of attractive entry points for investors in the second half of 2010 and I am optimistic about 2011, so watch this interval,” he said.

The weakness in the domestic market came ~wards sharp sell-offs in Chinese, European and North American equities and a fall through in commodity prices such as copper and oil.

The selling in global justice markets was “vicious”, Westpac analysts said.

The Australian dollar moreover suffered as investors’ fears deepened that the global economy was heading toward a double-dip recession.

Sparking the latest jitters was a US Conference Board indicator forward China showing a sharp revision lower, fuelling concerns about the risks to global increase.

HSBC’s co-head of Asian economics research, Qu Hongbin, told clients in a scrutiny note to prepare for lower readings on China’s relating to housekeeping data.

“The overheated economy is cooling off amid the pack together of both quantitative and micro tightening,” he said. “However, it is a appropriate slowdown, not meltdown.

“We still expect around 9 per cent GDP growth in the second half and 2011.”

By early afternoon, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was the floor 67.1 points, or 1.6 per cent, to 4278.6, having earlier touched 4249.5 – its lowest state of equality since August.

The All Ordinaries was lower by 68.7 points (1.6 per cent) at 4301.4.

The gyrations in global markets and worries c~ing the European debt crisis in recent weeks have prompted financial markets to worth no chance that the Reserve Bank of Australia will raise private ~ rates over the next 12 months. In fact, financial markets this break of day priced in a 10 per cent chance of a rate divide at the RBA’s meeting next week.

The weak institute to the Australian market came after Wall Street tumbled following a precipice drop in consumer confidence in the world’s biggest arrangement.

The broad-market S&P 500 slumped 3 per cent to every eight-month low.

“The (S&P 500) index is at a dangerous technical level – around 1040 – which has provided support four times this year,” Westpac analysts said.

“The VIX barometer of risk aversion gapped 5 points higher to 34.”

Investors fled assets linked to growth, such as the Australia dollar, which fell taken in the character of low as US84.75 cents in the New York session – a glide of 1.9 per cent since yesterday’s domestic close and a fall of 3 per cent since Monday’s shut up.

By early afternoon, the Aussie dollar was trading at about US85.10c posterior ranging between US84.65c and US85.11c in the domestic first blush of the ~ session.

On Wall Street, investors had sought shelter in US Treasuries, pushing the US guidance two-year bond yield to a record low, below the fit reached after Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 during the darkest days of the global monetary crisis.

The US 10-year bond yield closed below 3 for cent.

“People’s worst fears are starting to materialise – there simply isn’t enough growth around to create jobs (in the US),” IG Markets analyst Ben Potter said in a note.

“Jobs creation is mild the one thing this recovery has lacked in the US.”