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Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after gains on US and European markets after Greece made massive loan repayments to creditors and reopened its banks. At 0814 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 10 ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... September share price index futures contract was down seven points at 5,480. US markets were closed on Friday for a public holiday. In local economic news on Monday, the TD Securities-Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for June is due out as is the ...

The fat lady in concert on Sunday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... publish the US Non-farm payrolls report a day early so our yankee doodle brethren can celebrate their Independence Day holiday in peace. Now we've got something to occupy us while we wait. And occupied is what everybody seems to be. I've clicked on the ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... Ordinaries index was up 81.9 points, or 1.49 per cent, at 5,587.9 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have closed a holiday-shortened week slightly lower following a mixed US jobs report and as investors awaited Greece's weekend referendum over its ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat following gains on US and European markets after news that Greece had sought a new bailout package. At 0809 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down three points at 5,475. In ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... have had their say 5 days after. This means that the IMF can declare Greece in default. This means Grexit. Thus, the bank holiday, the massive ATM withdrawals, the ECB's limiting of its ELA assistance to Greece that we feared at the start of last week ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... Markets are happy because the imagined spooks of last week turned out to be just that...imagined. There was no Greek bank holiday, no capital controls, no limits on ATM withdrawals. No prizes for guessing, but Greece takes the prize, leading the jump ...

Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... $75 billion stripped from its value over the week. Local markets were closed on Monday for the Queen's birthday public holiday. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index on Friday was down 5.8 points, or 0.11 per cent, at 5,498.5 points. The broader All Ordinaries ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... Okasan Securities in Tokyo. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand stock market was closed on Monday for the Queen's birthday public holiday.

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... or 0.91 per cent, at 5,719.9 points. NEW YORK - NEW YORK - Wall Street markets were closed for the Memorial Day public holiday. PARIS - The Paris Bourse has closed lower in a low-key session, with many markets around Europe and in New York closed for ...