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Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following falls in US stocks. The June share price index futures contract was down 17 points at 5,761. The main Wall Street stock indexes were down by about 0.6 per cent on Friday, after a key consumer ...

Who's scared of Grexit or lift-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
It's the Fed one day, Grexit the next. It's a deal! Yes Virginia, this morning's headlines were full of it -- stories that a deal had been struck between Athens and Brussels. Never mind the after-reports that European Commission Vice President Valdis ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after the Nasdaq index on Wall Street bolted to a fresh record peak. At 0646 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,750. Locally on Thursday, the Australian ...

Fight profit shifting, ACTU tells industry funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
Union appointed industry super fund trustees should use their board influence to treat profit shifting by multi-national companies as a corporate governance issue and also promote infrastructure investment, delegates at the 2015 ACTU Congress were told ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... "We have no intention of embarking on a pre-set course of increases in the federal funds rate after the initial increase". Yes Virginia, lift-off will be "at some point this year". With these words, Janet sent the US dollar higher and the Australian ...

Share market flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
The share market has opened higher, continuing the positive momentum from Thursday after positive overseas leads. The big miners and energy stocks led the market higher. "We got the leads from overseas which were okay, but I think more importantly than ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... a barely positive 50.9 this month and China's contracted for a third month to 49.1 in May but above April's print of 48.9. Yes Virginia, it's the state of the planet as we knew it last week and last month. The PMI surveys -- considered good leading indicators ...

You can forget June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... until there is much greater confidence that inflation one or two years ahead will be at our 2 percent target." It's convincing yes. But I - like the financial markets -- still would want to know what the lady who sits in the chair has to say. She'll ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... understated first-quarter growth fairly consistently, even though they are adjusted to try to account for seasonal patterns." Yes Virginia, that advance estimate of 0.2% annualised rate of GDP growth the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported the ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... improvements in consumer spending that lifts business profitability and investments, lifts wages and strengthen consumer spending. Yes Virginia, the BOJ is not engaging in a propaganda of untruths but in wishful thinking - hoping and wishing and praying ...