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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
Australian shares have opened flat due to a lack of direction from the US after Wall Street was closed for a public holiday. At 1014 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.2 points, or 0.03 per cent, at 4,328.5 points, while the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... a bond-buying program this week, while investors digested poor manufacturing data. US markets were closed for a public holiday. At 0740 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was up nine points at 4,345. In economic news on ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... call by senior US Fed official for immediate monetary easing. The London stock exchange was closed on Monday for a bank holiday. In Milan the FTSE MIB index rose 0.89 per cent, while Madrid's IBEX 35 managed to climb 1.21 per cent despite Spain downgrading ...

Sitting and waiting and still hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
Looks like some in Europe's back from their holidays - there's some stirring going on from there again. Germany's Der Spiegel magazine reported that the ECB plans to buy government bonds to place a cap on yields to a pre-set premium over German bunds. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... York, after having spent much of the day down against the greenback. HONG KONG - Asian markets edged lower in subdued holiday trade with Tokyo stocks buoyed by a weaker yen amid dimming chances of fresh stimulus measures by the US Federal Reserve. Tokyo's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... dimming expectations of fresh monetary easing by the US Federal Reserve. With few catalysts to drive action during the holiday season, trade was light on Thursday, although shares were kept buoyant by lingering hopes for a restart of bond buying by the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... points. In Paris the CAC 40 bucked the trend to add 0.30 per cent to 3460.70 points. Milan was closed for the Assumption holiday, and Madrid climbed 0.67 per cent. The euro slipped to $US1.2282 from $US1.2321 late on Tuesday in New York. HONG KONG - ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... mainly in the red after listless trade, with only poor Japanese data making a dent in action slowed by the boreal-summer holiday. At the closing bell the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 38.52 points (0.29 per cent) at 13,169.43. The broader ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
In my book last week has gotta be one of the boring-est weeks of 2012. But with most equity markets ending on the plus side, boring is good enough for me. Reports that the US economy created 163,000 jobs in July - better than the 100K expected - sent ...

"Bad apples" slipping through the cracks: ASIC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... Commission (ASIC), outlined the regulator's top priories for the advice industry. He said that ASIC "was not taking a holiday" on surveillance, and findings from its risk-based monitoring program had shown that there was confusion, and a lack of communication ...