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Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... US stock market. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 51 points at 5,526. Wall Street rose more than one per cent as technology and banking stocks helped a run of sluggish trade in US equity markets. Locally on ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... from the US. At 0644 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up three points at 5,465. Wall Street stocks finished little-changed as a the General Electric asset sale offset worries about spiking US Treasury bond yields. Locally ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... its index tomorrow (or this week), one thing is for sure... the biggest kid of emerging markets is coming soon. The 'Wall Street Journal' reports that, "U.S. index-fund giant Vanguard Group Inc. says it will start buying mainland-listed shares, just ...

Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open lower, following falls on Wall Street overnight. At 0654 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 25 points at 5,477. US stocks were lower, led by large declines in technology ...

Australian market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following losses on Wall Street overnight. At 0642 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down 18 points at 5,490. Wall Street stocks tumbled almost one per cent due to unease over ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street. At 0653 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up seven points at 5,596. In the US stocks gained helped by a wave of solid US economic data. Locally ...

Shares fall ahead of RBA rate call

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... it will take an $18.5 million hit as it looks to streamline its operations following a string of acquisitions. On Wall Street overnight, stocks rose slightly ahead of a busy week of economic news. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 29.69 points ...

J.P.Morgan makes Australian appointment amid global restructure

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... announcement days after chief executive James Dimon announced that 5,000 jobs would be cut globally. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Dimon said that this represents at least 2% of its current workforce and added that the average branch would lose ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0642 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 15 points at 5,745. Locally on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank holds its monthly board meeting ...

US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... on the 22nd of May about well... the "actual course of policy". There were US data a-plenty released overnight and Wall Street was at best... confused - the S&P 500 index gained 0.2% (later than sooner lift-off) but yields on 10-year US Treasuries rose ...