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Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... dot com printed Kevin Kerr's ominous thesis that US$300 crude is not far off. According to the website, Kerr "has been trading commodities since 1989" and "currently manages the Cane Garden Capital institutional agricultural fund." And then there was ...

Liquidnet hits $2bn in Q1 trades

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Equities trading platform Liquidnet reports exchange of $2 billion in blocks of Australian equities in the first quarter of 2011, highlighting the increased appeal on 'dark pool' trading. During the three-month period Liquidnet traded $4.95 billion ...

Tyndall shifts gears on FI

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... said. Most retail investors are currently underweight fixed interest. Bridges expects 10-year bond yields to continue trading at between five and six per cent with the possibility of a short-term rise before returning to current levels. "Retail investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities markets flat to lower, while metals were mixed and oil fell. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 20 points lower ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... Wall Street front overnight. The US quarterly company earnings reporting season must be about to commence. Just in case. Trading volume was low and bereft of direction. The Dow was up 0.01 per cent and the S&P 500 was down 0.3 per cent. Sure there were ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... expected to post a full year loss of $427 million and planned to raise $757 million in a new share sale. Leighton was in a trading halt and last traded at $28.94. "It looked as though everyone has brushed the Leighton forecast downgrade and capital raising," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
The Australian market has received a mostly positive set of leads from weekend offshore trading, with Wall Street closing higher and commodities prices ending firmer. At 0805 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 11 points ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... chief market analyst, Ric Spooner, said volume was very light and the market would probably be flat for the rest of the trading session because its 16 day rally was difficult to sustain. The market had ignored the fallout from Japan's earthquakes and ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... said, prompting a local tsunami alert." Yet, you would hardly notice it from the reaction of equity markets that were trading at the time of the incident. What's another aftershock anyway? In the same report, AFP wrote that, "Around 400 strong aftershocks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Wall Street ended slightly lower after recouping earlier losses, while European markets were lower and Asia was mixed. Oil and gold hit new highs. At 0722 AEST on the ASX ...