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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... 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
... Management. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets finished the day mixed as the euro sank to a 12-year low against the US dollar which could see it lurching closer to parity. The euro dropped to $US1.0495 - the lowest level since January 2003. It later ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... important in my book, it shows what the worry of yesterday - slumping oil prices - and the concern du' jour - the strong US dollar - equates to for America. These equal to slumping US import prices - down 9.4% in the year to February following an equally ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... banks may have left it no choice. It's losing the currency war. Much had been reported about the rise and rise of the US dollar in recent days but a quick look at its one-year performance shows its gain more against other currencies than against the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... Fed hike, coupled with the European Central Bank's new bond-buying stimulus program and fears over Greece, sent the US dollar surging against the yen and closer towards parity with the euro. Hong Kong slipped 0.75 per cent, or 179.01 points, to 23,717.97 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... 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 market analyst Ric Spooner said. "The market is firming up expectations ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... 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 on the wall, the greenback is the fairest of 'em all. Latest available data ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... was based on very low interest rates and a will take off some of the froth. Also, the good data had strengthened the US dollar. That was a negative for commodity prices, which are set in US dollar, and consequently weighed on the big miners. With the ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... 500, down 1.4%; the Dow, down 1.5%; the Nasdaq, down 1.1%; and the Russell 2000, down 1.4%. They all jumped too. The US dollar index rose by 1.3%; yields on US 10-year bonds increased by 13 basis points to 2.24% -- its highest level since the day before ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... closing high on Thursday after the ECB announced its bond purchases will start next week. The euro tanked against the US dollar after the US Labor Department said the US economy pumped out a stronger-than-expected 295,000 net new jobs in February. HONG ...