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China: economy rising, market sinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... Regulatory Commission's (CSRC) efforts to rid the bears out of the market - the latest of which is the 20% reduction in trading fees implemented last September. In April, the Commission increased institutional investors' access to its market by raising ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... the black, with little hard news to direct trade as talks in Washington over a fix to the fiscal cliff continued. After trading lower for most of the session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the day up 3.76 points, or 0.03 per cent, at 13,025.58. ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... economist, who has an Economics degree at Copenhagen University and has 25 years plus of experience in the field of proprietary trading and alternative investment. So when the Sydney Morning Herald quotes him saying that, "I think we will have a huge ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... Heffernan said local market players took their cues from a disappointing night on Wall Street at the start of the Australian trading day. "I think largely we are following what happened overseas," Mr Heffernan said. US stocks closed lower in overnight ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... climbed 0.55 per cent to 7332.33 points, and in Paris the CAC 40 edged up 0.03 per cent to 3502.13 points. The euro was trading at $1.2938 compared with $1.2971 late in New York on Monday after an initial euro rally petered out. HONG KONG - Asian shares ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
Australian stocks have opened firmer in quiet trading conditions as market players wait for the latest developments over Greece and the US budget. At 1031 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 11.4 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 4,435.6 points ...

Giving thanks to thanksgiving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... Budweisers that turned Wall Street's mood into one of optimism last week. The S&P 500 index ended the last day of the trading week as it began - on the up and up - for a total weekly tally of plus 3.6%, the largest five-day gain since June, after losing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... traded. IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said the Australian share market had had a subdued opening to Friday's trading session. "With the US market closed for that Thanksgiving holiday, there's not many leads out there to work off," Mr Shamu ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... points, with 6,684 contracts traded. Macquarie Private Wealth division director Lucinda Chan said the local market was trading in quiet conditions at the open. Ms Chan said investors were on the sidelines amid ongoing negotiations between the White House ...

New rules for HFT trading

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
Retail investors will be protected from the downsides of high frequency trading by a new package of market integrity rules, said Bill Shorten, Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. Announced yesterday, the new rules include the use of ...