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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market is higher following gains on Wall Street and in Europe overnight. The lift comes after gains of more than one per cent on major European indices and a smaller rise on Wall Street. Patterson's Securities economist Tony Farnham ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on US and European bourses amid escalating tensions between the West and Russia, and talk of possible military action by the US. At 0830 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
The Australian market has snapped a six-day losing streak to start the week with gains following a positive US lead on Friday. Another day of losses on Monday would be the longest run of outs in four years. US markets made one per cent-plus gains on ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened lower as tensions increase over Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts. Australia's market followed negative leads on Wall Street overnight with all three major US exchanges ending the day in the red. The Dow Jones ...

MySuper spurred innovation and chased down fees

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... spent on technology upgrades anyway. Fellow superannuation researchers Adam Gee from SuperRatings and Ian Fryer from Chant West were more cautious in their appraisal of the new products saying it was too early to tell the full picture. Both were concerned ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... aerospace industries. Also, Russia's "reviewing" airspace restrictions. Knight takes pawn. Check! Bishop takes knight. The 'West' and Russia are playing a game of chess that'll ultimate end in a stalemate (only because I could not imagine that both are ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Street. The Dow Jones finished 0.08 per cent higher at 16,443.34 overnight after Russia imposed fresh sanctions against the West and Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox withdrew an estimated $US80 billion ($A86.56 billion) bid to acquire Time Warner. CMC ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Australia will be one of the countries most impacted by the seismic shift which will put Asia at the centre of a new world order. That is the opinion of the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... points, or 0.14 per cent, at 5,504 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have edged higher despite new Russian sanctions against the West and amid disappointing news that major potential media and telecom mergers fizzled. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market is lower as fears of an escalation of the Ukraine conflict and a potential move by the US Federal Reserve to increase interest rates impacts the local exchange. The market impact of reports Russia is massing troops on the ...