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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... February labour force data. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Wednesday clawed back early heavy losses linked to US interest rate rise fears but still closed lower with commodity prices putting pressure on mining stocks. ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The local bourse has opened in the red following losses from market heavyweights BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. CMC Markets chief strategist Michael McCarthy says the market was correcting itself to improve its chances of breaking through the 6,000 points ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... rose eight cents to $7.97. Qantas added 16 cents, or 5.7 per cent, to $2.97 after the airline bounced back from last year's heavy losses, posting a net profit of $203 million and beating its own forecasts. Nine Entertainment added 21.5 cents or 11.6 ...

Investor sentiment shifting overseas

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... digitisation that challenges business models and slows their revenue growth. Australia is especially vulnerable due to its heavy reliance on the financial sector. "Financials being 40% of the Australian equity market mean that if that sector comes under ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
The Australian share market is pushing higher after market heavyweight BHP Billiton increased its dividend and announced fresh cost cutting. On a busy day of corporate earnings reports, BHP Billiton had the healthiest market reaction, with shares up ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
The sharemarket is lower after disappointing results from CSL and Suncorp Group sent their stocks dipping, while falling oil prices dented the energy sector. Shares in market heavyweight, the Commonwealth Bank also fell despite it announcing a recorded ...

Retail investor confidence in domestic market low

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... confidence in the domestic economy, portfolios lack diversification geographically and by asset class, with a particularly heavy bias towards Australian equities and low exposure to fixed interest and there are no signs that investment behaviour is likely ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... - Asian stock markets ended mostly higher after reversing earlier losses, although dealers remained nervous following a heavy sell-off in New York sparked by poor earnings reports. Tokyo gained 0.15 per cent, or 27.43 points, to 17,795.73, Sydney added ...

APRA relaxes 'select' option data rules

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... APRA's earlier proposals for this data were resisted by the super fund industry because they believed it imposed excessively heavy compliance and systems costs on funds. While the regulator itself has also declared it's having its own technology and ...

Royal commission must look at 'full picture': TWUSUPER CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... with a median age of 30," he said. "TWUSUPER, on the other hand, is 95% male and has a median age between 40 and 50. It's a heavy blue collar industry with members from probably a low socio-economic group. So how do we make sure that these people have ...