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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street was pushed upward by solid earnings and major pharmaceutical-sector deals. At 0805 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 22 points at 5,494. The Dow Jones ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street despite tech stocks at one point pushing the Nasdaq Composite index down nearly two per cent. At 0805 AEST on Wednesday the June share price index futures contract was up ...

Government takes aim at corporation tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Australia's 30% corporation tax rate is getting in the way of the nation becoming a regional "financial services powerhouse", according to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Steven Ciobo. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) Life Insurance ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... Hollande a day after disastrous local polls. Meanwhile the DAX 30 in Frankfurt shed 0.33 per cent to 9,555.91 points news that German retail sales, a closely watched measure of household confidence, increased in February. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly ...

The waiting game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Apart from last-minute end-of-month and end-of-quarter window dressings, this first day of the trading week should offer few surprises. It'll be a week when financial markets play the waiting game. Investors' attention would be on what the Reserve Bank ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... British inflation. Frankfurt's DAX 30 jumped 1.63 per cent to 9,338.40 points, with traders shrugging off news of falling German business confidence. In Paris, the CAC 40 climbed 1.59 per cent to 4,344.12 points. The euro fell to $US1.3806 from $US1.3839 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
The share market has opened lower after falls on US and European markets overnight. Invast Securities chief market analyst Peter Esho said a sell-off on European markets, particularly in Germany, may have dampened investor sentiment. Manufacturing data ...

Market Vectors ETF gets Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
Market Vectors ETFs (Market Vectors), the exchange traded fund (ETF) business of US-based investment manager Van Eck Global, has received an 'Investment Grade Index' rating from research house, Lonsec. "The Market Vectors Australian Equal Weight ETF ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
Down on Putin one day, up the next. Down on Yellen one day, up the next. Financial reports now talk of investors re-assessing their thinking of what they thought they understood US Federal Reserve Chair (in this politically correct age) Janet Yellen ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... reports that, "U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague called the vote "illegal, unconstitutional and illegitimate" and that "German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a statement today condemning the operation "on the Ukrainian mainland" with "Russian troops." ...