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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... low if the currency doesn't trade lower over the course of the next month," Lennox said. "And iron ore was up 2.5% last night." The Reserve Bank disappointed investors on Tuesday by keeping its cash rate unchanged, though it has also maintained an easing ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... 50 per cent stake in the fuel distributor and seller. Miners are lower after iron ore prices fell four per cent on Friday night to their lowest point in more than seven years. "Again, the usual suspects are really paying the price of those falls," Le ...

FICAP Rockstar winners announced

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... winners of the 2015 Finance Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) Who Wants to be a Rockstar competition were crowned last night, with BlackRock's Adam Hess given the highest honour for his fiery performance of The Killers' Mr Brightside. Hess was also ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat after a fluctuating night on Wall Street where a rebound in tech stocks offset a transport industry, including airlines, slump. At 0800 AEDT on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was unchanged ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... first time in seven years. Australian stocks received positive leads from the US and European markets which gained on Friday night as low interest rates continue to push investors towards shares. Investors also were gaining confidence with central banks ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
It didn't happen on the night, but it happened last night. That perplexing perverse performance the financial markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... than the 3.0% rate at the end of 2013 when the Fed made good on the taper. The S&P 500 index - 2.074.28 points as at last night's close - makes one think that one "shoulda, coulda, woulda" have bought at the 1,848.36-point level (31 December 2013) after ...

"Patient" is the (key)word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
Say whaaa? Wall Street up - big time (well, relatively) - on the same night that crude oil prices went for another leg down. What ever happened to the headlines of not so long ago that went, "US equities sell off as oil prices tumbles" or something ...

AFA and PFL award Australia's top insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... (AFA) and Plan For Life (PFL) recognised Australia's top insurers and life risk products at a black tie event in Sydney last night. TAL received the overall Platinum Award and the Trauma award, and was a finalist in the award categories of Service Quality ...

My QE, your problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... September 2016. The European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled the details of its trillion euro quantitative easing programme last night. Special thanks to Bloomberg for saving me work and publishing the details in dot points (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-05/here-s-how-ecb-qe-will-work). ...