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Australians wary of new investments: Legg Mason

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
Australian investors are coy about putting their money to work both overseas and locally according to global asset manager Legg Mason. Although weighted averages suggest investor confidence in Australia is high, it appears investors in the lucky country ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... production report. In Australia, the market on Monday closed at a two-week high, with a recovery in iron ore prices propelling the big miners. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 49.4 points, or 0.83 per cent, higher at 5,982.7. The broader All Ordinaries ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... after rival M2 Group put forward a takeover offer, setting the scene for a possible bidding war with TPG Telecom. Among the big miners BHP shares jumped 50 cents, or 1.6 per cent, to $32.55, its highest level since early March. Rio Tinto climbed $1.35 ...

PIMCO sees opportunity in EU bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... negotiations between Greece and the European Central Bank (ECB) over Greece's debt are still ongoing, Worah said that there is a big chance that the former stays in the Eurozone. But it's going to be messy - he predicted a 30% chance that an accident ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... above the previous record on March 2. The Nasdaq surge came on the back of good data in the quarterly reports of the three big tech stocks: Amazon shares soared 14.8 per cent and Microsoft 10.5 per cent as they reported strong gains in cloud computing. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... higher at $31.86, while Rio Tinto climbed $1.30 to $57.60 and Fortescue lifted nine cents, or four per cent, to $2.18. The big four banks were also higher, with the Commonwealth Bank up 80 cents at $91.51, National Australian Bank climbed 31 cents higher ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... that's 3% gone - meaning we've got to come up with 1% somewhere else in the next three years," Miller said. "Now that's a big hole we've got to make up in terms of our growth rate looking forward, at a time when we're getting a big negative income shock. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... specialist Resmed releases its third quarter earnings. In Australia, the market on Thursday closed higher as gains among the big miners offset losses in the financial sector. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 7.3 points, or 0.13 per cent, at 5,844.8. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street posted solid gains following a big jump in US existing-home sales and a mixed bag of earnings reports from Boeing, McDonald's and others. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the June share price ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Impressive! Nah Virginia, I refer not to the big bouncy bouncy Wall Street and European equity markets did last night - which almost instantaneously affirmed the rant I scribbled on this space yesterday that "the bad and the bad and the bad" that spooked ...