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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after strong gains on overseas markets overnight and rises in commodity prices. At 0700 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up 41 points at 5,384. Euro zone stocks have been ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower, following falls in metals and oil prices overnight. At 0650 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract was down five points at 5,260. Copper and oil futures closed lower, weighed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... by the Swiss central bank to strengthen its currency. "We're all digesting the shock of the moves in the Swiss franc overnight - that's the talk of all the trading desks," CMC Markets market strategist Michael McCarthy said. "But I think as we work through ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... sharemarket has started lower following a slide on Wall Street and a fall in commodity prices. Wall Street finished in the red overnight, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down around 1% on the back of disappointing retail figures and concerns about ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
The Australian sharemarket has opened lower following another slide in oil prices overnight. The market is around 0.7% lower. That follows a fall of more than 0.5% on Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average and a 0.8% decline in its S&P 500 overnight. ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... is). And oh, climate changers too. But this was exactly what I read this morning as the price of crude plunged again in overnight trade. The per barrel price of WTI oil declined by 5.3% to US$45.80 and that of Brent closed 5.8% lower to US$47.20. This ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... lower as fresh concerns about political instability in Greece spooks markets around the world. European markets fell overnight after a presidential election was brought forward, which investors feared could threaten Greece's bailout program. Most sectors ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... EU/IMF benefactors - might win. This sent the Euro Stoxx-50 index down by 2.6% and the broader Stoxx-600 off by 2.2% overnight. Bad news, they say, come in threes. Here's the third for a trifecta. Speculations are building that the US Federal Reserve ...

The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... 14.21, the "fear gauge" - the VIX index - is not even half the 31.06 max it reached back in mid-October, its 20.2% jump overnight reflects the sudden attack of the jitters in financial markets. Oil's doing the limbo (how low can you go?). Brent oil dropped ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... market strategist Stan Shamu says the market is lacking a catalyst to trade much higher. "The only major development from overnight trade was that commodities pulled back again, so some of the resource names are giving back the gains from yesterday," ...