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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... ultra-low interest rates. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed mixed as data revealed a slump to US growth, while traders awaited the outcome of the Federal Reserve's latest meeting. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies added 0.15 per ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... cent, or 25.1 points, to 5,479.3, and Seoul added 0.25 per cent, or 5.00 points, to 2,004.22. Business remained thin as traders returned from the long weekend. Markets in Sydney and Wellington will also be closed Friday for Anzac Day. WELLINGTON - The ...

Knight Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... Economic Club of New York, Aunt Janet Yellen told the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker and the high frequency traders that, "... economic conditions may, for some time, warrant keeping short-term interest rates below levels" that are "likely ...

Flash Boys is 'complete nonsense': CMCRC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... has appeared frequently on US news stations in recent weeks to promote his book in which he argues that high frequency traders are given an unfair advantage over other investors. Aitken disagreed with Lewis's claim that exchanges have been complicit ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... first-quarter earnings also bested analyst forecasts. LONDON - European stock markets closed higher, recouping earlier losses as traders shook off concerns about the crisis in Ukraine on the back of positive data from the US. London's FTSE 100 closed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The share market is lower as traders take a cautious approach ahead of the US corporate reporting season, and amid instability in Ukraine. America's biggest bank, JP Morgan, missed its profit estimates by almost four per cent last week, which has prompted ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... 20 per cent. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the Australian market was inevitably going to fall. "Traders in Australia should not be following the Nasdaq but they do," he said. "It keeps increasing so it had to fall.. you can't keep ...

Time to go away?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... 2000 are starting to slowly weave their way into the blogosphere. According to Bloomberg, "Technology shares were hit as traders dumped the biggest winners of the bull market amid concern valuations have advanced too far... The Nasdaq Composite Index... ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... picture remaining as it was when we left it in March, financial markets bobbed up and down over the course of the week. Traders bought and sold for whatever reason - rebalancing, repositioning, arbitrage, etc. It was just the usual garden variety random ...

ISA attacks financial 'short-termism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... to overweigh near-term outcomes relative to future long-term growth opportunities." ISA argued that investment bankers, traders, executives, analysts and financial advisers were all guilty of short-termism due to various pressures. The submission made ...