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China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... unemployment claims continues, albeit slowly. There's also the same old refrain out of Europe. Sovereign bond yields jumped overnight led by none other than the PIGIS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain). The trigger? Germany's Finance Minister ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities indices flat to higher, and precious metals and oil also rising. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was four points ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... really, really strange about last night's financial market action on Wall Street. The US stock market is up a little overnight because oil prices rebounded. Strange isn't it? There is now a positive correlation between equity market prices and oil. Most ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities indices more buoyant and both gold and oil reversing recent losses. At 0734 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was nine points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... contract was 19 points lower at 4,898, with 21,007 contracts traded. Wall Street's indices lost almost one per cent overnight as energy stocks plunged three per cent, and the local market followed suit on Wednesday with investors rotating into classic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
The Australian market has received negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities indices and key commodities all lower. At 0652 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 30 points lower at 4,887 points. In ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... Transurban was up 10 cents at $5.33 after it reported double-digit growth in revenue in the March quarter. On Wall Street overnight, the major indices closed mixed, with traders concerned about the effect of higher oil and food costs on corporate margins. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities markets flat to lower, while metals were mixed and oil fell. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 20 points lower ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
It's all quiet on the Wall Street front overnight. The US quarterly company earnings reporting season must be about to commence. Just in case. Trading volume was low and bereft of direction. The Dow was up 0.01 per cent and the S&P 500 was down 0.3 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... Australian share market was flat in opening trade on a weak lead from Wall Street after another earthquake struck Japan overnight. At 1013 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 2.8 points lower at 4,905.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index was ...