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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... local session at 101.33 US cents at 0700 AEDT and attempted to move higher through the morning, but struggled to build enough momentum to break beyond 101.6 US cents. Rochford Capital senior consultant of FX advisory services Derek Mumford said Australian ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and everything is fine except... it's not fine enough. Wall Street was so sure heading into the February US non-farm payrolls report that the data will confirm improving labour market conditions in America. All the ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... reading jumping to its highest level since April 2006 - yes this was before the GFC. US economic conditions are improving enough that even Jobs came out of sick bay. Yes, Steve Jobs took leave from his medical leave to introduce iPad2 yesterday. And ...

Century Funds manager bid fails

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... unitholders. According to Century, eight in ten voters voted for Century as their preferred manager, but there were not enough unitholders present and voting with only around 40 per cent of the register voted. Fifty per cent of the total unitholding ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... Bullard is not ruling out the Fed extending its bond purchase program. In other words, QE2 is here to stay. And if not enough, we'll roll out QE3. So is the investment environment now safe to get back into risk assets because tomorrow will be a better ...

New rules on bank liquidity clarified

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... much liquid capital banks must hold and in what form. Under the global standards, Australian banks will be forced to hold enough highly liquid assets to cover their expected net outflows for the next 30 days. Those highly liquid assets must fall into ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Libya is vapourised along with its two per cent contribution to daily global oil supply. Saudi Arabia alone has more than enough in excess reserve to fill the gap. The problem is that other major oil-producing nations like Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait and ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... even before it hits US$220 a barrel, bringing it back into equilibrium with supply. And as far as supply goes, there's enough in reserves even if Qaddafi turns Libya into rubbles. Similarly, while the King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - OPEC's biggest ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... At 1233 AEDT, ANZ Banking Group lost 25 cents to $24.64. Higher commodity prices in offshore markets on Friday were not enough to prevent big moves in BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. "They're very big and quite aggressive moves for them after they've already ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... of manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region nearly doubled between January and February. The surge in manufacturing was enough to offset a Labor Department report that applications for unemployment benefits rose 25,000 from the previous week. The Dow ...