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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
The Australian sharemarket is tipped for a flat start ahead of a major week of data that will indicate how the economy is travelling. The September share price index futures contract is down two points at 5,613. Locally on Monday, the Australian Bureau ...

Perpetual launches Global Share Fund on profit rise

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... Andrew Plummer from Five Oceans Asset Management. Laurence said: "Given the relatively small size of the Australian sharemarket coupled with its heavy bias to financial and resource sectors, and smaller weightings to large global industries like IT and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
The Australian share market has opened slightly higher following strong overseas leads. Wall Street's S&P 500 topped 2,000 points for the first time during last night's session but fell back to close 0.48 per cent higher. The broad US gains were partly ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open slightly higher on Monday despite flat trading in the US at the end of last week. The September share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,516. Earning season continues this week with National ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The Australian sharemarket has opened flat following soft leads on Wall Street. The Dow Jones finished 0.08 per cent higher at 16,443.34 overnight after Russia imposed fresh sanctions against the West and Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox withdrew an ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
The local sharemarket has opened flat ahead of the Reserve Bank's interest rate announcement and the full swing of earnings season. All 15 economists surveyed by AAP predict the RBA will leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent on Tuesday. But ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... points to 2,039.21 but Hong Kong was up 0.31 per cent, or 71.51 points, at 23,081.65. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket finished on a mixed note, with the benchmark NZX 50 Index slipping slightly despite twice as many rising stocks than fallers. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... market is struggling to follow the US lead but it certainly has supported us to some extent," he said. On the local sharemarket, the major miners had fallen slightly while the major banks were mixed. Rio Tinto had dropped 23 cents to $59.84, BHP Billiton ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... points, to 2,024.97 while Hong Kong added 0.66 per cent, or 148.09 points, to 22,730.86. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket's benchmark index dropped, with Fletcher Building being among retreating stocks after the budget waived tariffs on imported ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
The sharemarket is flat in early trade as investors ignore positive offshore leads. US stocks moved higher as Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments that he had no designs on a larger break-up of Ukraine eased investor tensions. But there was no ...