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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street lifted more than one per cent as investors weighed the timing of US interest-rate increases after lower-than-forecast economic data. At 0818 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index ...

Patience, my dear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
"Ooh love me, please, just a little bit longer Together we can make it..." - Yvonne Elliman Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Speculations leading up to this, and interpretations, dissections - and more speculations - of the US Federal Reserve's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street fell on renewed anxiety over falling oil prices and the rising US dollar. At 0805 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was down 11 points at 5,801. In local economic ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street lifted following disappointing retail sales figures which bolstered the case for keeping US interest rates low. At 0803 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
It's back! That old familiar "good is bad and bad is good" trade on The Street. Stronger-than-expected US payrolls growth equals June interest rate lift off - Wall Street not happy camper. Weaker-than-expected and third consecutive monthly decline in ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious." - Lao Tzu, 'The Art of War' That "when" to fight must be nigh. Rumour has it that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) is preparing its own QE programme - prompted by the PBOC's recent ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat ahead of local jobs data and following a lacklustre performance on Wall Street. At 0808 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up five points at 5,791. In local economic news on ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Weak commodity prices and big losses on Wall Street have dragged the Australian share market lower. Fears of a US rate rise in June have hurt the US and Australian equity markets and a stronger US dollar is weakening commodity prices, CMC Markets chief ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
"When you're in love with a beautiful woman it's hard... Everybody wants her Everybody loves her Everybody wants to take your baby home." - Dr. Hook The good doctor might have as well sung about the US dollar instead of the fairer sex for mirror, mirror ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
The Australian sharemarket is trading lower, after increased prospects of a hike in US interest rates weighed on Wall Street. Strong jobs growth data from the US Labor Department has raised expectations the Federal Reserve will soon lift interest rates. ...