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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
A falling oil price in electronic trading in New York overnight may boost the Australian stock market today, although it may also have a constraining effect on energy stocks. With physical markets on Wall Street closed for Labor Day, there is otherwise ...

Three steadies and a cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
This Week's Market Movers (1 - 5 Sep 2008) Four of the world's major central banks will hold monetary policy meetings this week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), The Bank of Canada (BoC), the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open stronger after US stocks gained for a third day overnight, led by manufacturers and financial companies. At 0734 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index futures contract was ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
The Australian share market was stronger at noon as resources and financial companies led the charge after a strong US lead overnight. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 56.6 points, or 1.13 per cent higher at 5067.8, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Challenger and AXA sign up to Liquidnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
Challenger Financial Services Group and AXA Rosenberg Investment Management (Japan) joins the growing band of fund managers that have signed up to trading platform Liquidnet. David Klinger, Liquidnet Asia managing director, said the demand from Asia ...

A$ backpedals

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
The Australian dollar is fast becoming the victim of the worsening global growth outlook. The A$ fell by 1.6 per cent against the US dollar to around US$0.8550 and by 1.7 per cent vis-a-vis the yen to about Y93.50. Reports that the International Monetary ...

Bad news galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... existing home sales report. Existing home sales increased by 3.1 per cent from 4.85 million units in June to 5 million units in July - the highest level in five months. Markets expected sales to increase to 4.91 million in the month. However, there are ...

Capex & Credit at the forefront

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 24 AUG 2008
This Week's Market Movers (25 - 29 Aug 2008) Last week's economic releases continued the common theme of global weakness and elevated inflation. Financial market activity were once again volatile as thin trading volumes exaggerated downward moves in ...

Lower, higher, steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... some to go out and buy new cars. However, this would be offset by high petrol prices - crude oil reached a record high in July - and high interest rates.

Credit investors put bond issuers on notice

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
The general manager finance and tax at Wesfarmers, Luigi Mottolini, spent a good part of May and June leading a roadshow to meet with local credit investors. The aim of the meetings was to repair relations with bond portfolio managers and analysts who ...