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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... per cent in the prior three days. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets pushed upwards, helped by speculation that central banks may take further stimulation measures and put off rate hikes to support global economic growth. London's benchmark FTSE 100 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... financial year. Rio Tinto surged $1.06, or 1.77 per cent, to $61.03 and Fortescue Metals was 13 cents higher at $3.68. Among the banks, Commonwealth Bank added 46 cents to $77.64, Westpac gained 28 cents to $33.69, ANZ rose 30 cents to $32.77 and National ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... (the spread of it), the IMF, ISIS, Putin, oil, earnings, technicals, etc, etc etc. And then they hit... hard -- the central banks' jawbones, that is, whispering mo' money. And now Houston, we have lift off and volatility is nearly half (16.27 this morning ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... re-affirming its full year guidance, despite a 12 per cent fall in its gold production in the September quarter. As for the banks, the Commonwealth Bank lifted four cents to $77.30, ANZ added six cents to $32.51, National Australia Bank advanced eight ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
Shares are more than 1% firmer as Australian investors shrug off concerns about slowing global growth. The big banks and miners were leading the broader local market higher as investors took their cues from a rebound on US and European markets, Australian ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia, the world's biggest central banks didn't lift a finger, they merely used their collective jawbones to do the scaring away of the spooks over world growth ...

CBA 'open-minded' about Bitcoin

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... open-minded about the controversial digital currency. "I was interested to see us criticised I think, somewhere, yesterday, that banks were oblivious to Bitcoin and I was thinking: that's interesting, because our entire board and our entire management ...

ISA proposes new restrictions on retail super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... human behaviour - people tend to discount the future, focusing instead on more immediate financial objectives." But the banks are opposing this system, he argued, because "they want to leverage their business banking relationships with employers to cross-sell ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... trending significantly lower this morning," he said. "It's a really lethal cocktail when you get the materials space and the banks all trading lower. "Ebola was on investor and trader lips last night; global growth has been a continuing concern." Among ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... day, the policy responses of 2011 are instructive. When worse became worst that year, six of the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank - announced ...