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Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... iron ore prices. The market has recovered from Thursday's losses with investors shrugging off a dip in iron ore prices overnight, CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian said. "The major miners are leading gains despite falls in iron ore overnight," he ...

Superannuation tax concessions unsustainable: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... "being realistic". "We're talking about some of the things we'd like to achieve, we're being honest that it won't happen overnight and we are being realistic that it will take tough decisions hence us making announcements like our multinational tax ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... presently "quite high", and what do we get? We get the S&P 500 index closing at a new all-time record high of 2121.10 points overnight. The headlined rationale is that the US jobless claims report reported overnight is good for the economy but the accelerating ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... dollar jumped from US$0.7937 before the Budget to US$0.7977 yesterday... and jumped some more to a high of US$0.8124 overnight. The dollar-A is fetching US$0.8121 as I scribble. It's a double whammy for the dollar-A. The "feel good" factor from the "go ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... and retail stocks. "The energy sector is certainly the stand-out early in the session on some gains in the oil prices overnight," OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said Woodside Petroleum gained 36 cents to $34.87, Santos was up 19 cents to $8.85 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street overnight. At 0646 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,570. Locally on Tuesday, official housing finance figures for March ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
To paraphrase Karen (Carpenter), "there's a kind of hush all over the world overnight". The violent upheaval in the bond and equity markets you, I and Irene witnessed over the past few days appeared to have eased. Perhaps, this is because the selling ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,615. US stocks have pushed higher overnight as oil prices cooled and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba soared on strong sales. Locally on Friday, the Reserve Bank of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after US stocks lost ground overnight. At 0651 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 24 points at 5,631. Wall Street fell for a second straight session following disappointing ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... immediately after, before just as quickly bouncing back and rising above US$0.7900. The A$ reached a high of US$0.7947 in overnight trade and is currently fetching US$0.7937. Currency market experts put the Australian dollar's opposite reaction to the ...