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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
The Australian dollar was over one US cent lower on Wednesday after the central bank kept the cash rates on hold on Tuesday and the release of weak US economic data overnight. At 0700 (AEST), the Australian dollar was trading at 107.80 US cents, down ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... chicken politicians in Washington are still playing and the Europeans' sport of kick the can, I bet you that RBA Governor Glen Stevens is losing many nights of sleep over them. And not only these, Australia's consumer spending conundrum is also racking ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
The Australian share market has received negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with markets falling as US policy-makers continue to search for a resolution of the country's immediate debt problem. At 0728 AEST, the local September share price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
The Australian stock market is expected to open slightly higher today despite a mixed performance on United States markets on Friday. At 0627 AEST on the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was up three points at 4,590. On the company ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
The Australian share market is likely to decline after global equity and commodities markets declined overnight on weakening US economic data and Greece's escalating debt crisis. At 0746 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract ...

Backpedals

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... target over the year ahead." That's fine. Some in the financial markets even pencilled in a rate cut (C-U-T) after Governor Glen Stevens' statement. But by Friday of the same week, the RBA changed it tuned. In its quarterly Statement of Monetary Policy ...

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 ...

RBA worries not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... agricultural produce... but these prices should fall back later in the year." This was how Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glen Stevens explained his Board's decision to keep the country's official cash rate at 4.75 per cent yesterday. The local ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
The Australian market is receiving mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices flat, while precious metals were higher and oil eased. On the ASX 24 at 0837 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract was two points ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... set for outing today. The minutes would probably contain no added info to that what we've already heard from RBA Governor Glen Stevens last week, but it'll serve to etch Australia's good economic fortune deeper into all Australians' psyche. "It is worth ...