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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 ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... that the first quarter economic slowdown is due to "transitory factors" a lie. But perhaps it's not. US data releases overnight show that America's economy is gathering pace after the first quarter speed bump, muchas gracias. US jobless claims for the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... domestic product numbers were absolutely dismal, and that's having an impact on the market as well." Official data released overnight shows that the US economy grew just 0.2% in the first quarter. This drove Wall Street and European markets down overnight ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... won't be in June - that's for sure. Or at least that's what a comparison of the wordings in the FOMC statement released overnight and the ones published after the 18 March meeting. It's more dovish. I'll let you compare the pair. Here's the 19 March ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... weakened to 96.1 - a 4.3% drop from the 100.4 peak hit only last month. On the flipside, the A$ has shot up above US$0.80 overnight (US$0.8021) - the first time since January this year and is 6.5% up from the US$0.7533 touched about the same time as ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... a day after the local market reached a two-week high. Australian Stock Report head of research Chris Conway said the overnight US equities decline had encouraged local investors to take profits. "That would 100 per cent be the reason why our market is ...

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015