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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Tuesday posted its strongest day in 20 months as the global economic outlook improves and interest rates remained on hold. Shares gained about $39 billion in value in the largest one-day rise for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... currently anticipates that it would be appropriate to moderate the monthly pace of purchases later this year" if the economic outlook continues to improve. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets pulled back in careful trade, with traders on tenterhooks ...

RBA decisions decisions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... they would have to ease policy sometime this year - preferably before the 14 September elections. In its latest Economic Outlook report published last week, the OECD hinted at this: "The surge in mining investment, which is likely to peak in 2013, is ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... higher despite Wall Street falling slightly ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony on the economic outlook to Congress. At 0635 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up seven points at 5,227. In economic ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... points, while in Milan the FTSE Mib was 0.61 per cent lower at 15,533 points. "Mounting concerns about the global economic outlook and events in Boston have triggered a flight to quality," said RIA Capital Markets analyst Nick Stamenkovic. The IMF cut ...

No end in sight for renminbi rally

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... unbridled appreciation of Chinese currency will not be halted by uncertainties about the economy's short-term economic outlook, according to new research by AllianceBernstein. The investment manager says the strength of structural factors, rather than ...

Aussie stocks best value for 25 years

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... sheets and cash flows, and this has created a compelling opportunity," he said. In Australia, fear of the global economic outlook and the sovereign-debt crisis in Europe, has seen a move to defensive stocks such as consumer staples, healthcare, IT, utilities ...

Something's gotta give

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... next few weeks would play second fiddle to the fiscal cliff at best or have no significant bearing on the US economic outlook at worst. This is because all those bright, rosy pink, better-than-expected numbers that'll flow in the next few days could ...

Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... nemesis confronting the wealth creation industry. While falling interest rates and a slightly improved global economic outlook might be expected to encourage more investors to dip their toe into more risky assets, research by Investment Trends suggests ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... marginally up from $1.2709 late in New York on Monday. HONG KONG - Asian markets fell on uncertainty about the global economic outlook as the US "fiscal cliff" looms and much-needed bailout cash for Greece was delayed. The yen rose against the euro and ...