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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... or 3.2 per cent, to $28.68 after reporting that total food and liquor sales rose by just 2.3 per cent during the March quarter while comparable sales were up just 0.7 per cent. The retail giant is also axing 400 jobs in a bid to save $500 million in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... March is due out. And in equities news, News Corp releases third quarter earnings, the Commonwealth Bank issues its March quarter trading update and Woolworths releases its third quarter sales results. In Australia, the market on Tuesday gave up all ...

May cut, may not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... cut interest rates at the next one - on the fifth of the fifth month of 2015. The release of higher-than-expected March quarter core inflation - trimmed mean up 2.3%; weighted median up 2.4% -- in the middle of last month reduced the odds to a coin flip ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... Australia, which is 73% owned by foreign airlines, was flat at 51 cents after it posted a narrower loss during the March quarter as its budget carrier Tigerair recovered to turn a small profit. Telco shares were down with Telstra losing two cents to ...

OneVue announces management, strategy changes

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
OneVue has announced changes in its management team, custodial arrangements and digital strategy in its March quarter update. Current chief financial officer Brett Marsh will be replaced by Ashley Fenton, previously CFO at executive recruitment company ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... previous month. The bigger-than-expected 0.7% increase (2.6% year-on-year) in the Employment Cost Index (ECI) in the March quarter confirms the positive indications from the jobless claims and consumer spending reports - i.e. consumers are spending because ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... The FOMC saw that it wasn't good. US real GDP slowed to a mere 0.2% -- and that's at an annualised rate - in the March quarter from 2.2% in the previous three-month period. We would have seen a negative before the first quarter growth number if not for ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... aggregates for March and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the international trade price indexes for the March quarter. Former Liberal leader John Hewson speaks at a Property Council lunch in Adelaide while the two-day Future of Work conference ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... Beach Energy was down 2.5 cents, or 2.1%, at $1.165 after announcing a 23 per cent drop in sales volumes for the March quarter. But the broader energy sector was firmer, with Woodside up four cents at $35.93 and Oil Search adding three cents to $8.46. ...

Future Fund grows to $117bn

AAP AND DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... the fund has generated returns of $56.5 billion on an initial government investment of $60.5 billion, the fund's March quarter portfolio update showed. Chair of the Future Fund, Peter Costello, said a patient and disciplined approach to investing for ...