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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... energy and resource stocks a healthy boost, CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said. "But a drop in US markets overnight has given the rest of the market a negative lead so, broadly speaking, stocks outside the resource sector are weaker, including ...

Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... in December 2011". And with this, the slide in oil prices became slipperier. Brent dropped 6.7% and WTI slid by 6.3% overnight, taking their 2014 year-to-date losses to 35% and 31%, respectively. Some OPEC cartelists were disappointed, some content ...

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... interest rates might not be so considerable anymore. Sure, sure there's the disappointing consumer confidence report out overnight. Consumer confidence dropped to 88.7 in November versus 94.5 in the previous month and expectations for a 96.5 print. But... ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... positive lead from Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 climbed 0.19 per cent and 0.2 per cent overnight, both reaching fresh record highs following positive economic data. But Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said ...

Original FoFA laws take immediate effect

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... Many in the industry have condemned the actions of the Senate, saying advisers may find themselves in breach of the law overnight. Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden said the disallowance would create a "legal quagmire", and cost ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... ran away with it. I refer to some (thankfully, not most today) financial headlines that connected Wall Street's dip overnight to the Fed's deflation concerns. The bone - "Many participants observed the committee should remain attentive to evidence of ...

Industry furious at financial advice swap

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... services industry responded with ire after the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) laws were demolished in the Senate overnight. Labor, the Greens and four crossbenchers, including Palmer United Party's Jacqui Lambie, argued the Coalition's proposed changes ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... pulled back by the big miners and major banks. Investors largely ignored gains on markets in the United States and Europe overnight, and instead fretted over lower iron ore prices. "It was concerning for investors in iron ore stocks to see the iron ore ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... in November after falling month after month after month since December last year. The Euro Stoxx 50 index gained 1.2% overnight as did Spain's IBEX-35; the CAC-40 went up by 0.9% and Italy's MIB index closed 0.7% higher. Germany's DAX index - surprise ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... Industrial Average and S&P 500 finished virtually flat while the Nasdaq lost ground. "It's pretty much what we expected from overnight developments," he said. In the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton gained 18 cents to $33.40 in early trade ...