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Domestic market closes higher after sluggish day

... contract was three points higher at 3185.0 - a 13.5-point premium to the underlying index - on a volume of 8,892 contracts. On Friday, Wall Street improved after the previous day's weakness, which was attributed to bomb blasts in Turkey. The blue-chip ...

Midday Market Wrap: Quiet start driven by banks and safe haven stocks

... contract was eight points higher at 3190.0 - a 10.2 point premium to the underlying index - on a volume of 4,297 contracts. On Friday, Wall Street improved after the previous day's weakness which was attributed to bomb blasts in Turkey. The blue-chip ...

Morning Market Wrap: Investors expecting confidence boost

... highs on the weekend amid US dollar weakness. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7229/37 compared with Friday's close of 0.7221/26. The local unit reached a high of $US0.7244 and a low of $0.7206 in offshore trade. The US dollar was ...

Morning Market Wrap: Investor jitters after weekend terrorist attacks

... in Istanbul dented sentiment, which was also soured by a slump today on Wall Street extending a sell-off that started on Friday. Shortly after the European markets had closed, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was showing a loss of 1.15 per cent, while ...

Afternoon market wrap: Stronger dollar drives shares lower

... underlying index on a volume of 10,805 contracts. Bell Potter senior investment adviser Stuart Smith said the bourse followed Friday's movement, pushed down by the momentum of the strong Australian dollar. The Australian dollar dropped back to around ...

Midday Market Wrap: Dollar puts pressure on local stocks

... front on stocks which have overseas earnings." At 1200 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7194/99 compared with Friday's close of 0.7212/17. In New York, stocks sagged on Friday and ended the week lower as disappointing corporate results ...

Jail, rather than fines, needed for corporate crime, says lawyer

... rather than fines and sanctions, are needed to curb corporate crime, a leading South Australian business lawyer said on Friday. South Australia insolvency lawyer Michael Barrett said the Gordon Gecko "greed is good" motto is alive and well in many areas ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar hovers at $US0.7200

The Australian dollar opened slightly weaker today but was still hovering on the $US0.7200 level it reached last Friday. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7198/03 compared with Friday's close of 0.7212/17. The local unit reached ...

Afternoon market wrap: Shares, bonds close down

... close of local trade the yield on the Commonwealth Government May 2013 bond was at 5.945 per cent, compared with 5.920 from Friday's close and the yield on the November 2006 bond was at 5.790 per cent from 5.780. Australian bonds began the week in weaker ...

Midday market wrap: Shares, bonds both ease on stronger US data

The Australian share market opened in negative territory, following a fall in the United States market on Friday night. At early trade the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 9.3 points weaker at 3239.2 while the all ordinaries index fell 7.6 points to ...