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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher on the first day following the federal election and after disappointing US jobs data prompted little change on Wall Street at the end of the week. The US Labor Department said the world's biggest economy ...

ETF market closes in on $9 billion milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
Australia's exchange traded product (ETP) market has expanded rapidly in 2013, reaching a record $8.8 billion in assets according to the latest ASX Funds Monthly Update. The report shows Australia's ETP industry, has grown by 61% in the 12 months to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
The Australian share market looks set to open slightly higher after Wall Street rose on encouraging US employment data. At 0740 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5,147. In economic news on Friday ...

Wonderully dreadful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... expansion in activity in early July to August; and the services PMIs in China, the Eurozone and the UK strengthened further in August (this comes on top of better-than-expected manufacturing PMI readings in the same month). Domestically, just imagine ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following Wall Street's jump after strong US car sales pointed to strength in the manufacturing sector. At 0806 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 16 points at 5,172. ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... Manufacturing Index that showed activity in the sector remained in contraction territory for the 26th straight month in August - points to still subdued overall economic growth in the third quarter.A That is unless Abbott or Rudd produced a miraculous ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower despite a rise in US stocks, although concerns about a possible military strike on Syria cut into Wall Street's early gains. At 0800 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... mood on markets on September's first trading day. China's official PMI rose to a better than expected reading of 51.0 in August - a 15-month high - which, along with the jump in HSBCs flash estimate of 50.1 over the same month, puts a zip to hard landing ...

BT chief appointed as FSC board co-deputy chairman

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
Brad Cooper, chief executive of the BT Financial Group has been appointed as co-deputy chairman of the Financial Services Council (FSC). He joins Craig Meller, managing director of AMP Financial Services who is also co-deputy chairman of the Financial ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
"So, are you going to tighten by Labor Day?" Tonight we're going back to the future.A Going back to that fateful day on the 22nd of May -- when Texas Republican and head of the Joint Economics Committee Kevin Brady posed this question upon US Federal ...