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Shares higher on US rate outlook

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... market is higher as investors return to high yield stocks, including the major banks. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said stocks were also supported by comments from US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen that the Federal Funds Rate will ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... as markets assimilate the impact of weaker than expected US data and wait on developments in the Greek debt saga," Ric Spooner, chief market analyst in Sydney at CMC Markets said. "The first Fed rate hike now seems at least several months away. While ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... including a big General Electric asset sale adding to the US market's deal wave. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said it had been a moderate start. "Some buyers are being encouraged by the risk-on moves we saw in international markets... ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... since interest rates were kept on hold. Offshore markets provided positive leads but CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said it was a neutral day without any conviction for investors. "Since the RBA meeting the market has been on standby and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... Australian equity markets and a stronger US dollar is weakening commodity prices, CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said. "The market is firming up expectations of a US interest rate hike," he said. "A stronger US dollar is weakening commodity ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... February, pushing the unemployment rate down to 5.5%, the lowest level since May 2008. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said the US jobs news was the key driver behind the Australian market's fall. "The reason for that is that it has changed ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... local market opened higher following gains on Wall Street amid optimism on Greek debt talks. CMC Markets chief analyst Ric Spooner said banks were amongst the leading performers at the open, with CBA, Westpac and NAB up. "We are seeing signs of bargain ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... is lower, pulled back by weakness among the major banks and the resources sector. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner says ongoing concern about the falling oil price because of oversupply is hurting the resources sector. "It (the fall in the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... gold prices have also rebounded, giving energy and resource stocks a healthy boost, CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said. "But a drop in US markets overnight has given the rest of the market a negative lead so, broadly speaking, stocks outside ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... new stimulus measures were being prepared to boost the flagging eurozone economy. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said investors were piling into mining stocks on the expectation that the rate cuts in China would result in Australia's biggest ...