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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... local market was taking its lead from Wall Street, which received a boost from positive US consumer confidence and employment data, and Europe where Germany's DAX30 index rose to record highs. "We're rallying from that optimism from another solid session ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
... results. In Australia, the market on Friday finished higher, bringing a four-day losing streak to an end due to good employment news from the United States. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was UP 47.6 points, or 0.9 per cent, higher at 5,335.9. The broader ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
Surprisingly good data on US employment has snapped a four day losing streak on the local share market. A 21,000 drop in American jobless claims for November buoyed Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its highest close ever, above ...

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... Perhaps what's new is that little piece of "data" that received little attention from the press overnight - the US employment cost index (ECI). US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures released last night showed that America's employment cost index ...

Feds speak Fedspeak yet again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013

Good, bad: all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... greater demand this quarter. That may be so given the following day's good news on US non-farm payrolls for October. US employment increased by 204,000 last month - much, much more than expectations for a 120,000 addition. It's not good it's great particularly ...

Niche super funds cooperate to avoid merging

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013
... markets." Regarding provision of financial advice, he said: "We are already accommodating funds that can't justify employment of their own financial planners. This can be done by pooling resources to share access to financial planners - thus spreading ...

Market Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
The Australian stock market has opened weaker ahead of the release of October's official employment figures. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said the local market had been weighed down by two of the big four banks, ANZ and National Australia Bank, going ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... particularly well last night," he said. The falls came after the European Union revised downward eurozone growth and employment forecasts. It said growth would amount to 1.1 per cent next year, down from the 1.2 per cent it forecast in May, and unemployment ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... The Australian market looks set to open flat following falls on Wall Street and most European bourses after eurozone employment figures failed to impress. At 0824 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up three points at ...