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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... what's really important and that's earnings." On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.63 per cent on Friday night while the broad-based S&P 500 rose 1.29 per cent. Locally, Commonwealth Bank has added 80 cents to $77.34, ANZ has climbed ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... for many moons now. Scotty didn't just suddenly beam them down onto the financial markets this month. Why this month? Last night's trading activity on Wall Street provides the answer and confirms my musing that, it's not really world growth or world ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... lethal cocktail when you get the materials space and the banks all trading lower. "Ebola was on investor and trader lips last night; global growth has been a continuing concern." Among the miners, BHP Billiton was down 79 cents at $33.01, Rio Tinto had ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... Chinese trade balance figures due out at lunchtime (AEDT) show solid growth coupled with US markets being closed on Monday night, said CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner. "We might set ourselves up for a little bit of a turnaround," he told ...

AMP University Challenge winners revealed

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... McLay, was awarded the top prize by AMP executive director financial planning Steve Helmich at a reception at AMP on Thursday night. First prize was $5,000 cash (for the winning team to share), along with registration to attend the 2014 FPA Professionals ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... returned... the bargain hunters, the bottom fishers and the dip buyers - turning the previous day's see on Wall Street into last night's saw. All are thanking the friendly International Monetary Fund (IMF) for opening up another entry point. But the ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Mother's made an outing last Friday night in America - and she came bearing good tidings. Mother, of course, is the US non-farm payrolls report - considered "the mother of all economic statistics". US employment increased by 248K last month following ...

Super Mario dropkicks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... dropkicks markets. Super "whatever it takes" Mario has promised a lot... but delivered short. Hence, we got what we got last night. The euro reversed its decline, so did euro bond yields and European equity indices dropped. The Euro Stoxx-600 index dropped ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... is set to announce the details of its recent policy easing measures later tonight. ECB president Mario Draghi only last night reiterated his pledge "...to deliver our most important commitment, which is to bring inflation back close to 2%... We will ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... surprise the local bourse had opened lower, CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian said. "Weakness in the US market last night, ongoing weakness in the Aussie dollar and falls in commodity prices are the biggest drivers," he said. "The higher the US ...