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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
The share market is higher as miners, energy producers and banks enjoy gains. Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are higher after encouraging quarterly production reports earlier this week, while energy stocks benefitted from improvements in crude oil prices. ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
Surprises, surprises, and more surprises. We're yet to complete the first month of 2015 and thus far, we've gotten central bank surprises a-plenty... and they're not kinder surprises either. We've seen the Swiss National Bank (SNB) stomp the CHF1.20/euro ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... report suggesting quantitative easing at a rate of 50 billion euros per month for a year starting in March sent shares in Europe chopping around violently on Wednesday as tensions grow leading into the final announcement on Thursday afternoon," CMC Markets ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... and US stock markets. At 0715 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 23 points at 5,281. Europe's leading stock markets got a boost from expectations of further European Central Bank stimulus and better investor confidence ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... cent, at 5,289 points. NEW YORK - US markets were closed on Monday for the Martin Luther King public holiday. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed higher Monday, the start of a pivotal week for the region with the ECB forecast to announce fresh ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Australian share market has opened the week higher after Wall Street and European markets rose more than one per cent on Friday. At 1015 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 51.1 points, or 0.96 per cent, at 5,350.3, while the broader ...

So sure it's certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
It's a done deal! No more ifs, ors, ands and buts. You can bet the house on it - including all its contents (breathing or otherwise) - that four days from now, on 22 January, you, I and Irene would hear the European Central Bank (ECB) announce two letters ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains in oil prices and US and European sharemarkets. The March share price index futures contract was up 76 points at 5,307. On Friday, Wall Street stocks gained one per cent as oil prices rebounded ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
The Australian sharemarket is lower in the wake of a surprise move by the Swiss central bank to strengthen its currency. "We're all digesting the shock of the moves in the Swiss franc overnight - that's the talk of all the trading desks," CMC Markets ...

SNB dismantles defense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
"Francogeddon", "currency tsunami", "shocker", "jaw-dropping". These are some of the words used to describe the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) decision to surrender and abandon the currency peg - erected back in September 2011 - against the euro last night. ...