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| | | ... expected the benchmark index to close at a new year-to-date high when trading ended at 1615 AEDT. "We will be strong," Mr Smith said. "I think there are absolutely good reasons to buy in the market." Metals and mineral stocks were leading the broader ... |
| | | | ... Democrats and Republicans cannot reach a deal. "We've opened slightly higher on the back of a good night on Wall Street," Mr Smith said. "It's also been driven by the miners who have opened strongly." The Dow Jones industrial average gained 82.71 points ... |
| | | | ... gains from a positive finish on Monday. "It certainly looks like we should have an interest rate cut and we will get it," Mr Smith said. Eleven of the 15 economists surveyed by AAP last week said they expected the central bank board to reduce the cash ... |
| | | | ... election had kept the local market subdued in early trade. "The screen is full of perhaps an early election in March," Mr Smith said. Fairfax Media over the weekend reported that federal public servants were told to bring work forward and clear backlogs ... |
| | | | ... decision from the Reserve Bank of Australia. "We will be quiet until we can get through probably tomorrow and Wednesday," Mr Smith said. Making news on Monday, Westpac said net profit for the 12 months to September 30, 2012, came in at $5.97 billion ... |
| | | | ... Thursday had offered the market some support at the start of trade. "Options expiry day tends to steady the market," Mr Smith said. The telecoms sector was the best-performing sector at the open, having risen 0.87 per cent, according to IRESS data. Telstra ... |
| | | | ... conservative ends of the market, which is your banks and retail and Telstra and that sort of thing, into resources," Mr Smith said. "That's the not-so-subtle change that is happening and it is overdue and, I think, it is positive." Australia's big four ... |
| | | | ... cent, from 3.5 per cent previously, was continuing to support the market. "There's confidence seeping into the market," Mr Smith said. Seventeen of the 20 stocks on the S&P/ASX20 were in positive territory at the open, with Brambles the best-performing ... |
| | | | ... markets had provided the catalyst for investors to have enough conviction to buy. "It's an overdue surge of confidence," Mr Smith said. "It's been gradually coming to the surface." Mr Smith said investors would be focused on the release of the US non-farm ... |
| | | | ... "Toll's saying things are not looking good with where they are overseas then it might be a very slow march forward," Mr Smith said. Wall Street closed higher - the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.77 per cent, the S&P500 ended up 0.65 per cent ... |
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