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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 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... At 0655 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 50 points at 5,754. US stocks tumbled overnight on worries about higher oil prices and tensions over the slow progress in the Greek debt negotiations. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... added 30 cents, or 0.83%, to $36.59. The major miners were mixed with gains in iron ore, copper, oil and gas prices overnight and falls in precious metals, including gold. Diversified miner BHP Billiton was down 51 cents to $32.84 while Rio Tinto added ...

Will nice numbers make RBA a bad guy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... a mere 0.1% gain in Feb. But it's good enough for them, good enough for Wall Street and the US dollar too which rose overnight because of the "solid rebound" in factory orders. Well know for sure after lunch if the latest "good" Australian data releases ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0700 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 29 points at 5,835. US stocks gained some ground following the first rise in US factory ...