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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... firmer. Mr Spooner said buyers were finding good value in resources stocks as well as high yielding stocks such as the big banks and Telstra. At 1200 AEDT, Rio Tinto was 52 cents, or 0.86 per cent, higher at $61.26 after the global miner announced that ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... on itself," he said. The market opened weaker following a late drop on Wall Street, but rebounded in late morning as the banks recovered from a weak start. The miners drove the gains, with BHP Billiton up 75 cents at $33.35, Rio Tinto up $1.75 at $60.11 ...

Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Former Liberal leader John Hewson has said that over-investment by banks and pension funds in carbon-exposed industries could lead to a global financial crisis that dwarfs the 2008 crash. Hewson was speaking in his capacity as chairman of the Asset ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... be "exceptionally patient" on rates lift off. Has the Fed lost its mojo? And for that matter, all the other major central banks on the planet... them who promised to do "whatever it takes"? I must admit that while it was easy to cry "buy them dips, buy ...

Market Vectors launches international ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... Neiron added that Australian investment portfolios have one of the largest domestic equity biases in the world, dominated by banks and resource shares. "Australia lacks exposure to sectors such as technology and healthcare, which form much larger parts ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... dropped 33 cents to $38.37, Santos had lost eight cents to $12.51 and Oil Search was 11 cents weaker at $8.24. Among the banks, Commonwealth Bank dropped 60 cents to $74.20, ANZ lost 31 cents to $30.91, Westpac shed 30 cents to $31.95 and NAB was 23 ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... scenario. After all, markets rallied back to life thereafter... with Fed help (QE4 anyone?). More ominous is that central banks have lost credibility to reflate their respective economies... in which case, the bear (market) could be lurking just around ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... cent, to $32.35, Rio Tinto had given up $1.44, or 2.4 per cent, to $57.59 and Fortescue Metals dipped 11 cents to $3.24. The banks were down but faring better. Commonwealth Bank had given up $1.11, of 1.5 per cent, to $75.12, ANZ lost 42 cents to $31.40 ...

Premium signs up three accounting practices

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... value our independence and this is a good fit as we did not wish to be aligned to large ASX listed corporations, such as banks, insurance companies and the like." Premium Wealth has three license options - SMSF advice license, iPremium and the traditional ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... tepid with geo-politics, geo-health providing downside risks; the greater the threat to growth, the less appetite central banks (Fed and BOE) to normalise monetary policy or provide more stimuli (ECB and BOJ and PBOC) until the risks go away and economies ...