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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell sharply as a selloff in semiconductors, fed by a downgrade on suppliers, spread to the broader market. At 0805 AEDT on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down ...

IRESS launches cloud-based trading platform

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
IRESS has launched SmartHub, a cloud-based financial transaction messaging platform. SmartHub is designed to offer a low-latency, globally-implemented online service which reduces trade messaging back-office compatibility burdens. It supports "multiple" ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
"When you're in love with a beautiful woman it's hard... Everybody wants her Everybody loves her Everybody wants to take your baby home." - Dr. Hook The good doctor might have as well sung about the US dollar instead of the fairer sex for mirror, mirror ...

IGR proves current welfare level is unsustainable: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The results of the Treasury's Intergenerational Report prove that Australia's current level of social welfare cannot be sustained and that superannuation will play a key role in addressing the issue, the Financial Services Council (FSC) said. Reacting ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
Another rate cut is coming, another rate cut is coming. Bloomberg's survey shows (tada!) 18 out of 29 economists expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to follow-up February's 25 bps reduction in the official cash rate to 2.25% with another 25 bps ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
"If I listened long enough to you I'd find a way to believe that it's all true..." - Tim Hardin Data releases over the past few weeks have vindicated the "crisis" duo of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his cigar-smoking Treasurer Joe Hockey. ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
Earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released its Statement on Monetary Policy, detailing the reasons for the why and the wherefore it decided to cut the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a record low 2.25%. "...over recent ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
"US Stocks Climb as Oil Gains, Pfizer Rises on Hospira Purchase" This was Bloomberg's take on the whys and the wherefores for the S&P 500 index's 1.0% rebound overnight after slipping by 0.4% the day before that was prompted by a 9% plunge in oil prices ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Oil! Oil! Oil! It's on the slide again! Just when we thought, the price of that black gold has found its footing, fresh news of higher supply and inventories and predictions of lesser demand next year took the floor from under it. While I still maintain ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
The share market is lower as fresh concerns about political instability in Greece spooks markets around the world. European markets fell overnight after a presidential election was brought forward, which investors feared could threaten Greece's bailout ...