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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher after mixed results on Wall Street overnight. At 0756 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 4,017. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
The Australian share market opened slightly higher, with most sectors posting gains as investors await the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) latest interest rate decision. At 1010 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 49.3 points, or ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
"Confusion raining down from up high And all the time you ask yourself 'why?' Why can't you make decisions Can't make up your mind." -- Confusion, The Zutons This, Virginia, sums up the current state of the markets. With so much uncertainty around ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher after mixed results on Wall Street overnight. At 0756 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 4,017. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
Stop looking. There are no ifs, no ands, no ors, and no buts to find, it's getting ugly out there. Oh yes Virginia, the combed over look ugly as events and indicators of the past week suggest that we are coming into, if not already in, a perfect storm. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... opening trade. By 1130 AEST investors had learned that Australian residential building approvals fell 8.74 per cent in April - well short of economists' predictions of a 0.5 per cent rise. The Australian dollar fell below 97 US cents on the news, and ...

CalPERS awards Citi $28bn in securities lending assets

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
A securities lending auction of US$43 billion in US equities for the California Public Employees' Retirement System has awarded Citi exclusive borrowing access to US$28 billion of the assets. The auction was conducted in the by eSecLending, a global ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
"Here comes that rainy day feeling again, and soon my tears will be falling like rain..." (The Fortunes) Looks like I have to prefix my surname with the letters W and R for while I correctly anticipated that heightened volatility in the financial markets ...

Bad news? What bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... S&P/Case Shiller composite home price index of 20 cities. Yes, the index rose by a smaller than expected 0.1% in March from April - but it's still a rise. And while it fell by 2.6% from a year earlier, it's an improvement from the 3.5% fall in February ...

Managers confident on value as China PMI contracts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
The latest figures on Chinese manufacturing show a contraction for the seventh consecutive month, although investment managers remain confident. HSBC's purchasing managers index (PMI) yesterday indicated factory output fell from 49.3 in April to 48.7 ...