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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
The Australian dollar has risen slightly after weakness following the Reserve Bank of Australia's official interest rate cut. The Australian market looks set to open higher, following the lead of Wall Street which rose on the back of better-than-expected ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
Australian shares have opened slightly higher as confidence grows in the local market following gains in resources stocks and on high expectations of an interest rate cut. At 1015 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 7.4 points, or ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
Australian stocks have opened more than one per cent higher after a successful Spanish bond auction eased concerns over the euro zone debt crisis. At 1012 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 49.3 points, or 1.15 per cent, at 4,338.1 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher, despite a mixed lead from Wall Street as investors weigh better-than-expected US retail sales numbers, a sharp slowdown in New York manufacturing and renewed eurozone debt tensions. At 0750 AEST on Tuesday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
The Australian market is set to open lower after global stock markets dropped on concerns that Spain and Italy may be the next countries to succumb to the eurozone debt crisis. At 0753 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
The Australian market is set to open higher after stocks on Wall Street posted large gains on a surge in lending in China and a rise in eurozone industrial production. At 0802 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 27 points ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
Uh-oh. Here's looking at you kid, and kid you're not looking good. A weaker-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report released during the Easter break punctuated a week of not so good news for the equity markets, re-igniting the uncertainty over America's ...

Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
It's that time of the month again folks - the time when we try to second guess what the Reserve Bank of Australia will do to interest rates. Will they? Won't they? Cut interest rates, that is. They will, then again perhaps they won't. Yes, Virginia ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower after international bourses lost ground amid concerns over China's economy following a warning on dropping iron ore demand and on new US housing data. At 0815 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index ...