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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... Composite Index shed 9.98 (0.20 per cent) at 4,993.57. "The market seems to be tired," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital. "Every time we get up to these levels, we pull back." Athens's radical new government scraped ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street on Friday. The June share price index futures contract was up 43 points at 5,645. Wall Street stocks surged more than one per cent on Friday after new data showed that the ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... raise rates because they can't... They won't hike in June or in September and we will get another stimulus package." (Economist Peter Schiff) The only "masters" Reuters quoted as thinking it will come this year are "Gregory Fleming, president of Morgan ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... stock market valuations as "quite high" and said they pose "potential dangers" to financial stability. Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial, said Yellen's remarks suggested she is "pretty eager" to raise ultra-low interest rates despite some disappointing ...

Falling cash rate puts gold in 'sweet spot'

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... interest rate environments like the one Australia is experiencing are typically the sweet spot for gold," ABC Bullion chief economist Jordan Eliseo said. The World Gold Council revealed that in 2014 central bank gold purchases hit nearly 500 tones. "In ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index rose 11.54 points (0.23 per cent) to 5,016.93. Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital, characterised the gains as "momentum buying" after the Commerce Department said new orders for ...

ASIC says AUD spike "not misconduct"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
ASIC has provided an update on its investigation into the suspicious spike in the Australian dollar that occurred seconds before the RBA announced it was keeping cash rates on hold at 2.25% on April 7, finding that so far it has been linked to automated ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Getting hot, hot, hot. Betting on whether the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would take down the official cash rate from a record low 2.25% to a lower 2.0% following its May Board meeting tomorrow heats up. Bloomberg's latest survey says... 24 out ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... Asia's other giant. "India faces a once in a generation fork in the road," Standard Life Investments emerging markets economist Alex Wolf said. The 10th largest economy in the world could overtake China as the fastest growing Asian economy if the new ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... speech at the Australian Financial Review Banking and Wealth Summit in Sydney. Department of Industry and Science chief economist Mark Cully is scheduled to speak at an Australian Business Economists lunch, in Sydney, and the Disruptocon conference runs ...