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BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... inside the euro rather than outside it, Wall Street and European equities didn't even get a look in on, this, the first trading day after the Greek vote. Wall Street ended flat with the Dow down 0.2% and the S&P 500 up 0.1%. However, it was more sinister ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... Mib index closed with a loss of 2.85 per cent. The euro gave up early gains, and slid to $US1.2572 in afternoon European trading from $US1.2644 late on Friday in New York. HONG KONG - Asian markets surged and the euro rose after pro-austerity parties ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... address the CEDA State of The Nation dinner in Canberra. In Australia, the market on Friday closed slightly higher, but trading volumes were low as investors remained cautious ahead of the weekend elections in Greece. On Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

ASIC winds up unregistered managed investment scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... superannuation funds, in 2007 and 2008 ASIC secured the return to Australia of more than $20 million located in overseas trading accounts which ASIC says belonged to investors in Master Fund and 13 other schemes not registered with ASIC. ASIC had that ...

No random walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
As surely as night follows day, an up day on Wall Street followed the previous one's down. Over the past seven trading days, the S&P 500 displayed this classic sawtooth pattern. Here are the stats - and the rationales as headlined: 06 June: Up 2.3% ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... fine ounce. By 1222 AEST, national turnover had reached 617.8 million securities, worth $1 billion, with 281 securities trading up, 506 down and 340 steady.

CFD turnover rises amid dollar decline

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... for gold and strong interest in the US and German 30 are some of the latest CFD trends identified in CMC Markets' May trading trends report. The latest analysis of CMC Markets' (CMC) trading patterns in contracts for difference saw an increase in turnover ...

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... nobody knows. Wall Street was down again last night, after being up the previous day and down the day before. This sawtooth trading pattern hardly comes as a surprise given the great uncertainty over the outcome of the Greek elections. Thankfully - rather ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... were still cautious in the lead-up to the Greek elections on June 17. "We will probably continue to see some cautious trading even if there's good news. People have still got it in the back of their head that the Greek elections are coming up," he said. ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... down the previous day after being up the day before and down the day before that. Yes folks, this is what the past few trading days has boiled down too - markets seesawing on daily headlines. The latest of which is renewed speculation of Fed stimulus ...