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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... weaker after negative leads from overseas markets and pain in the energy sector. Stocks on Wall Street and in Europe fell overnight, oil prices plummeted to a fresh six-year low, putting pressure on energy stocks. "It's one of the big drags on the market ...

NAB too big to change culture overnight: Thorburn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB) chief executive Andrew Thorburn has admitted that cultural change in such large organisation "probably takes five, 10 years," in light of the regulator's concerns about its financial planning arm. Thorburn noted that NAB ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... The share market is lower, with falls in all sectors, despite a strong lead from Wall Street. The US market rallied overnight on shockingly low retail sales data, which bolstered the case for keeping US interest rates low. The Australian market enjoyed ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... side or the other side, it doesn't matter. I don't know whether or not Wall Street took stock of another stat released overnight - couldn't find it reported in the financial press anywhere or maybe, I just didn't look hard enough - but this economic ...