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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... Paladin Energy and Ausdrill have annual general meetings scheduled. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed lower for the third straight day as investors reacted to negative comments from the head of the US central bank. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Tony, SBY and Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... released last night showed that America's employment cost index - the broadest measure of labour costs rose by 0.4% in the third quarter - less than expectations for a 0.5% gain and down from the 0.5% increase posted in the second quarter. The third ...

Standard Life Inv GARS fund recommended by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... its investment objective of cash plus 5% per annum (gross of fees) over rolling 3-year periods. The risk expectation is a third to a half that of the equity market. The SLI GARS Australian trust is currently offered to wholesale and institutional investors. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... were given another strong lead on Monday from Wall Street, where the Dow and S&P 500 closed Friday at record highs for the third straight session. The dollar edged lower against the yen on profit-taking. Tokyo ended flat, giving up earlier gains following ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... sharemarket up. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said people were still trying to digest what the 60-point plan out of China's third plenum meant. Among the reforms were a relaxing of the one child policy, easing of urbanisation laws restricting people ...

CB onslaught

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... still working. Then again...maybe not. Maybe not because Japanese economic growth slowed to 0.5% (1.9% annualised) in the third quarter from 0.9% (3.8% annualised) in the three-month period ended June. The major reason cited for the slowing was the slump ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... Ordinaries index added 44.2 points, or 0.83 per cent, to 5,396.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks set fresh all-time highs for the third straight day after Federal Reserve chief nominee Janet Yellen bolstered expectations of the Fed keeping the flow of easy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... stimulus policy in place. Investors brushed aside news that economic activity slowed in Germany and contracted in France in the third quarter, with gains in the US constrained by disappointing earnings. Europe's main stock markets closed higher, with ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... and Hong Kong fell 1.91 per cent, or 437.58 points, to 22,463.83. China's Communist Party wrapped up its closely watched Third Plenum on Tuesday, promising deeper economic reforms including giving the market a "decisive" role in allocating resources ...

Move the goalpost Mark

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... market. Based on the BOE's latest projections the unemployment rate would hit its threshold 12-18 months earlier than the third quarter of 2016 it predicted in August. "The committee's latest projections, assuming the bank rate rises in line with the ...