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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street despite a three-hour shutdown of the Nasdaq market that disrupted trade on other exchanges as well. US markets' rise followed news that eurozone business activity picked up ...

Australia, a middle power between China and US

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... relation with China might work," US-based think tank Brookings Institution director Jonathan Pollack said. "The size of the US market gives it a leverage that Australia might not have, but on the other hand, countries such as Australia and Korea have ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
The Australian stock market has opened lower, following falls on Wall Street overnight. Commsec market analyst Steven Daghlian said the local market was lower for the third day in a row - its worst performance since June. He said local stocks were taking ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after US markets closed at record highs in their previous trading session. At 0815 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5077. In economic news on Monday ...

Former Hostplus marketing head joins Frontier

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
Frontier Advisors has appointed Wayne Sullivan as its new head of marketing and business development, taking effect from 1 August. Sullivan was previously head of marketing at industry superannuation fund Hostplus and prior to that he worked at Sunsuper ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
Record gains on the US market have helped the Australian stock market open higher. The ASX 200 has again nudged above the 5,000 mark but, says CMC Markets chief analyst Ric Spooner, investors remain subdued. "It follows a lead, but I think it will be ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened close to one per cent higher, continuing the week's trend of significant moves both higher and lower. A day of gains on Friday to follow Thursday's rises would end the trend of one day of heavy losses being following ...

End of QE sounds death knell for 'zombie' stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The tapering of quantitative easing (QE) will burst the bubble in high-yielding 'zombie' stocks, according to UK-based Duncan Lawrie Private Bank's James Humphreys. Stimulus measures by central banks in Europe, the US and Japan have propped up global ...

Study finds dark pools damage market quality

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
Dark pools are damaging overall price discovery and market quality in the US, according to new research by Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC). Researchers from the Australian independent academic centre for capital market research looked ...

Aussie shares weaken ahead of long weekend

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... night release of US non-farm payrolls data for May. "If the numbers come in significantly worse than expected, if the US market pulls back, and then there's no opportunity for investors to react to this on Monday," he told AAP. "There's why there's going ...