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The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... 72% and the Australian dollar's fall to a low of US$0.7597 (down 0.4% from yesterday's US$0.7628) in intra-day trade overnight backs this up. The question is would the dollar-A continue to head down and stay down... long enough to reverse the Australian ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
Australian stocks have extended their losses on heavy drops in commodity prices and overnight falls on Wall Street. Crude prices eased and iron ore fell to its lowest price since tracking began in 2008. The market opened with only modest losses, but ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... senior market analyst Kara Ordway said. "It's given us the extra momentum today," she said. US stocks firmed during overnight trade with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.49 per cent and the broad-based S&P 500 jumping 1.22 per cent. The major miners ...

Adviser Ratings revamps website in prep for FAR launch

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... regulator's MoneySmart website on March 31. "The arrival of the ASIC register will not restore faith in the planner market overnight but it marks a significant turning point where more and more tools including ours are being put in consumers' hands to ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... big sell-off - particularly in the banks," IG Markets strategist Evan Lucas said. He said heavy losses in US markets overnight was driving the local bourse down. "We saw over one per cent in the Dow in the S&P and a 2.4 per cent move lower in the NASDAQ," ...

Out with the old in with the newer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Uh-oh, what's the matter this time? The US Department of Commerce released bad US economic news overnight and Wall Street's down? What happened to the "bad news is good" mantra? Certainly the Fed's got its eyes on the latest update on what is considered ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... said the materials and energy sectors were the best performers. "That's unsurprising given we had a weaker US dollar overnight and a slight uptick in commodity prices, including oil," he said. Global miner BHP Billiton lifted 32 cents to $31.32, but ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... falling commodity prices. Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said falling iron ore and oil prices overnight have pushed the miners and energy sector into the red. The crude oil market gave back much of its Federal Reserve-sparked ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... expectations of a Reserve Bank interest rate cut. Early gains of 1.3 per cent followed a strong session on Wall Street overnight, as the US central bank's Federal Open Market Committee said the labour market needed to improve before it raised the federal ...

'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... "patient" - or "patience" - in the Fed's monetary policy statement (that I copied and pasted into my Word document) released overnight. It's no longer there - nada, zilch, kaput, MIA. And that "patient panic" Reuters talked about last Friday the 13th ...