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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... Jennings said. Mr Jennings said he expected the market to drift along at close to current levels for the rest of the local trading day.

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... a distant memory especially when you look at the current performance of the Europe Stoxx 600 index. As at the close of trading last night, the benchmark index has risen back up to its highest level in five years and has appreciated by 10.8% so far this ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... stocks are firmer at noon, with the banks and miners leading the broader market higher. The local market opened the new trading week up about 0.75 per cent and extended gains through the morning, as investors took their cues from a positive finish on ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... it fell below parity against the big dollar and continued to head down, down, down. The dollar-A finished last week's trading fetching only around US$0.9728, down 5.1% from the US$1.0254 it was exchanging at on the day before the RBA chopped interest ...

MoneySmart list of unlicensed companies approaches 700

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... list on the MoneySmart website, which celebrated its second birthday in March, reveals a significant number of companies trading under familiar sounding names. Some examples from the list include First Colonial Management, Platinum Investment Holding ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... Federal Reserve would scale back its bond purchases." At 0830 AEST on Friday, the June 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.810 (implying a yield of 3.190 per cent), up from 96.760 (3.240 per cent) on Thursday. The June three-year bond futures ...

IG offers Bitcoin bet

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... first three months of 2013, hovering at the US$120-$160 mark, before falling to US$90 on May 3. At time of writing it is trading at around US$117. The currency's status has divided commentators. Reuters finance blogger Felix Salmon has claimed the current ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... quantitative easing helped support US Treasuries prices. At 0830 AEST on Thursday, the June 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.750 (implying a yield of 3.250 per cent), up from 96.730 (3.270 per cent) on Wednesday. The June three-year bond ...

Family office 3rd generation more engaged with investments

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... "Some of the family members of generation three are interest on adopting an entrepreneurial spirit and on engaging in more trading businesses, so I am seeing that there will be a bit of a cycle here," she said. Wheatley also said that due to the complexity ...

Financial markets give the budget a big yawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... Swannie. The financial markets certainly think that way. It was a big yawn from them. The S&P/ASX 200 index futures is trading 30 points higher at the time I'm punching away at my keyboard. This could be interpreted as a vote for the budget...but not ...