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A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... US$0.7782 after opening at around 0.7680 in yesterday's trade. It's currently fetching US$0.7792 after reaching US$0.7806 overnight (although this was partly aided by general US$ weakness last night). This makes the RBA May cut or not an interesting ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following losses on Wall Street overnight. At 0720 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down six points at 5,938. US stocks finished a touch lower after a mixed round of company ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... cents to $38.98, and Westpac had retreated 65 cents to $38.91. A recovery in iron ore prices to above $US50 a tonne overnight boosted the big miners. BHP Billiton added 49 cents to $29.61, Rio Tinto gained $1.11 to $56.07, and Fortescue Metals firmed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... put aside a weak lead from Wall Street and investors were focusing on the outlook for Australian interest rates and an overnight bounce in the iron ore price, HC Securities senior private client adviser Mark Lennox said. "I guess the target for Australian ...

Strike three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... exchange from yesterday's sharp rebound a function of the re-strengthened greenback - the US dollar index gained by 1.2% overnight - or ramped expectations that the RBA will cut interest rates in May? For sure, it's a hundred percent certain. This is ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... the price of Australia's largest export, iron ore, fell to fresh lows. The iron ore price dropped below $US50 a tonne overnight, extending a run of losses that began a week ago. Iron ore for immediate delivery to the port of Tianjin in China fell to ...

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 ...