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Australian market strong after miners' gains

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... said. "The market is trending upward nicely and I wouldn't be surprised to see further rises." US stocks finished higher overnight, bouncing back from deep losses in the prior session. Gains were also made in Chinese and European markets, with the main ...

Bank glitch delays government super payments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... payments by value and volume were processed yesterday and that they were expecting the remaining 1% to be processed overnight. "The cause of the delay in the payment of pensions appears to be a change in our bank's processing arrangements that provide ...

Australia stocks tumble on commodity falls

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... continued fall in commodities and a weak lead from Wall Street. Iron ore prices in China plunged to a fresh six-year low overnight, falling more than 10 per cent to $US44.59 a tonne. The soft opening on the local market comes after a bruising session ...

Australian stocks open lower on China concerns

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... in commodity prices on concern about China's turbulent stock market. Iron ore fell 4.6 per cent to $49.70 US a tonne overnight, close to April's 10-year low of $46.70. Nickel fell nine per cent and copper has hit a six-year-low while iron ore had been ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... Chimbo OlA(C)! OlA(C)! OlA(C)! A$ down... and the RBA didn't even have to lift a finger. Yes Virginia, it didn't happen overnight but it did happen. The A$ broke below US$0.74 (US$0.7398) last night - the first since mid-2009 - despite the RBA keeping ...

Australian shares up on ease over Greece

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... offshore markets' tempered reaction to Greece's rejection of bailout terms. US and European stock markets dipped slightly overnight, but not as much as feared in the wake of Sunday's referendum in Greece. Greeks voted against European-imposed austerity ...

Oxi Oxi Oxi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... opts out or is ejected. For Greece will set a precedent for the next prodigal member... and the next. It won't happen overnight, but it could happen. Then again, it might not but I wouldn't go daring Murphy's Law -- "anything that can wrong, will go ...

Australian shares lower at midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... Monday's carnage when $40 billion was wiped off the share market. There were heavy falls in US and European markets overnight, particularly the latter, due to the economic turmoil in Greece where banks are closed and the odds of a eurozone exit increase. ...

Australian market set for further falls

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... the Australian sharemarket on Monday in one of its worst sessions in years as part of a global selloff that continued overnight. Wall Street contracted sharply, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 350 points, or almost two per cent, and the S&P ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... still... nada, nil, zilch. Still, financial markets remain relatively calm. The VIX index - the fear gauge - climbed overnight but at 14.01, is still below the 15.39 reading high this month (when the Greek saga went from simmer to boil) and way below ...