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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... mixed as data showing China's economy growing at its slowest pace in five years offset another positive lead from Wall Street. Tokyo slipped 2.03 per cent, or 306.95 points, to 14,804.28 a day after clocking up a gain of almost four per cent, while Seoul ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... the rally that began late last week with the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing 0.12 per cent higher on Monday. Wall Street's gains and better commodity prices had driven the Australian share market higher, Bell Direct equities analyst Leanne Jones ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street recovered early losses to trade in positive territory. At 0810 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 14 points at 5,320. Locally, in economic news on ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... slowing global growth, the spread of Ebola (to) investors' focus on 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. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... euro fell to $US1.2756 from $US1.2809 late in New York on Thursday. HONG KONG - Most Asian markets were mixed after Wall Street and European shares stabilised in response to upbeat US data, but traders remained on edge about the global economy and fresh ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... 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 peace or world health... it's the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a better session on Wall Street where stocks were drifting between small gains and losses in late afternoon trading. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Say it again, Homer. "I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!" For those who've just tuned in, Wall Street was going, even sending the S&P 500 index up by 1.3% overnight, until it slipped... on oil. The action du' nuit is captured in Bloomberg's ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat as Wall Street trades in positive territory. At 0645 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,175. Locally, in economic news on Wednesday, the Australian ...