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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street stocks barrelled to new records, following strong US car sales and Chinese manufacturing data. At 0645 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 19 points ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... morning gains and follows a fall of close to one per cent on Monday, which was related to traders selling underperforming stocks and realising losses to reduce potential tax bills. A rise in China's Purchasing Managers' Index on Tuesday showed activity ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... 31 cents to $59.75, BHP Billiton was 16 cents lower at $36.26 and Fortescue Metals had dropped seven cents to $4.48. US stocks finished higher on Friday as strong earnings from shoe and clothing maker Nike helped offset a profit warning from American ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
The share market is higher after retail stocks bounced back from their recent slump. Strong manufacturing data out of China earlier this week and signs consumer sentiment in Australia is picking up have rekindled demand for consumer related shares ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... concerns in Ukraine and that's keeping markets a little edgy and volatile at this point," Mr Daghlian said. Lend Lease stocks took a hit on Wednesday after the developer announced the $A1.20 billion sale of its interest in upmarket UK mall Bluewater ...

Wall Street is in a spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... Exchange." Say what? "WTI... slipped...? Say what, indeed! For this is the same mob that brought as the headline, "U.S. Stocks Decline Amid Tension in Middle East, Data"! Couldn't it just simply be investors pocketing their profits, portfolio managers ...

Morningstar launches stewardship ratings in Australia

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... Independent investment research Morningstar Australasia has launched stewardship ratings for Australian and New Zealand stocks. The ratings assess a firm's stewardship of shareholder capital as exemplary, standard, or poor. In the initial allocations ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... China's best manufacturing activity data in six months helped spark gains in Australia on Monday and in base metals, but US stocks were flat while European markets fell and Asian stocks were mixed. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said he also thought ...

SMSF members getting younger

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... lowest income groups fell from 42.2% in July 2013 to 27.4% in December 2014, a decrease of roughly 275,911 SMSF members. Stocks form close to one-third (32.1%) of SMSF holdings, followed by 28.0% of holdings in cash, highlighting the desire for defensiveness ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... massive outflow of funds in emerging markets that sent emerging currencies dropping. The momo, biotech and social media stocks tick tock. I remember this well, this was the time (mid-April) that Dr. Doom - aka Marc Faber - that a 1987-style crash cometh ...