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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... 2.9 points, or 0.05 per cent, at 5,431.1 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have finished lower after the US Federal Reserve ended its quantitative easing stimulus program, but said it would continue to keep its benchmark interest rate low. The Dow ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... finished little changed as the market absorbed losses in petroleum stocks while looking ahead to a two-day US Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday rose 12.53 points (0.07 per cent) to 16,817.94. The broad-based ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... responses of 2011 are instructive. When worse became worst that year, six of the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank - announced a coordinated ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher following overnight gains on Wall St where the US Federal Reserve hinted it would not raise interest rates. Steady interest rates have a negative effect on the US dollar and bond yields, and increase the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... being weighed down by lower commodity prices, ongoing concerns about conflict in Iraq and Syria, and talk the US Federal Reserve will lift interest rates more quickly than expected over the next few years, CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian said. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... rose 0.75 per cent to close the day at 4,464.70 points. "Last night's absence of any real surprises from the US Federal reserve... has helped push US equities out to fresh highs," said Tony Cross, a market analyst at Trustnet Direct. "More critical for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... share price index futures contract is up three points at 5,404. The Dow closed at a fresh record after the US Federal Reserve stuck to a plan to begin raising near-zero interest rates only in 2015. At the close on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... stocks have posted solid gains following reports of a new Chinese stimulus plan as investors awaited Wednesday's US Federal Reserve monetary policy announcement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 100.83 points (0.59 per cent) to 17,131.97. The ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... Britain. LONDON - European stock markets have closed narrowly mixed, the start of a significant week as the US Federal Reserve holds an interest-rate meeting and Scotland votes on its future. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index slipped 0.04 per cent to ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... Australian stock market is lower as news of a slowdown in Chinese industrial production and expectations the US Federal Reserve will lift interest rates weigh on investors. Official figures released over the weekend showed industrial production growth ...