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DomaCom unveils IPO plans for 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
DomaCom is planning to launch an initial public offering (IPO) next year, after completing a $7 million capital raising. DomaCom chief executive Arthur Naoumidis told Financial Standard that the company is looking to raise between $20 and $30 million ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following falls on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve confirmed it would end its asset-buying program. At 0808 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up two points at 5,431. ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
The Australian market looks set to open markedly lower after Wall Street fell more than one-and-a-half per cent. At 0805 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was down 53 points at 5,318. Locally, in economic news on Friday ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Fifteen point zero nine points or just a little over 0.28%. This is all the All Ordinaries index need to slip by today to take it back to square one - where it was at the start of 2014. Given the lead from offshore markets overnight - the S&P 500 dropped ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... yuan ($A87.64 billion) into the five top state-owned banks, with a view to boosting lending to businesses. WELLINGTON - Spark New Zealand has led New Zealand's benchmark share index lower, as offshore investors sold high-yield stocks on the prospect ...

FRBSF takes on Jackson Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Thank you FRBSF! Join me Virginia, in thanking the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (yup, that's what the FRBSF stands for) for its recently-released economic research titled, "Assessing Expectations of Monetary Policy". Thank the FRBSF for bringing ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Toto, I've a feeling we're back in Goldilocksville. Now that the headlines have grown tired of counting and recounting of lives lost - and collateral damages - the US/EU-Russia tits-for-tats, the "humanitarian" trucks toing and froing through the Ukrainian ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... clash with Russia ebb, with the Dow surging 1.1 per cent and Nasdaq reaching a 14-year high. Monday's markets also got a spark from a brewing bidding war over the discount retail sector by the three "Dollar" chains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street rose despite a lacklustre US retail sales report and some disappointing earnings announcements. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 25 points ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
Ho-hum. It's now so predictable that it's become so triple ho-hum boring. Yes folks, "Chumbawamba" still rules on Wall Street - it gets knocked down but it gets up again, nothing's ever going to keep it down. Only yesterday, I listed the list of crises ...