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Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... mechanism." Wall Street's happy - S&P 500 up 0.7% to a two-week high - for the bad US retail sales report (released overnight) conjures happy thoughts about the Fed keeping interest rates low for, perhaps, a considerably greater "considerable time" after ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... the profit wasn't enough to lift investor sentiment after disappointing German economic data lead to overseas losses overnight. Commonwealth Bank shares were down 49 cents to $81.20 in early trading despite its record result. CMC Markets chief market ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market is higher following gains on Wall Street and in Europe overnight. The lift comes after gains of more than one per cent on major European indices and a smaller rise on Wall Street. Patterson's Securities economist Tony Farnham ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... tensions increase over Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts. Australia's market followed negative leads on Wall Street overnight with all three major US exchanges ending the day in the red. The Dow Jones dropped 75.07 points to 16,368.27, while broad-based ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... sharemarket has opened flat following soft leads on Wall Street. The Dow Jones finished 0.08 per cent higher at 16,443.34 overnight after Russia imposed fresh sanctions against the West and Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox withdrew an estimated $US80 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... following negative leads from Wall Street and fears the conflict in Ukraine is set to worsen. US stocks fell sharply overnight with investors also selling shares amid fears of a Wall Street correction. The Dow Jones dipped 0.84 per cent, the broad-based ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... comes despite US stocks regaining some of last week's sharp losses with the Dow Jones finishing 0.46 per cent higher overnight. Local resource stocks were mainly higher on Tuesday with BHP Billiton up 0.5 cents at $38.31 and Rio Tinto 28 cents higher ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... to slide on negative leads from Wall Street and weaker commodity prices. Declines in the base metals and oil prices overnight, combined with further falls in US and European equity markets on Friday, are weighing on the local market, CommSec market analyst ...

Default pensions 'very logical' solution: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... stunned that we give people a lump sum - by which I mean they are stunned that we risk people losing all their money overnight." While Brogden insisted there was no evidence that retirees squander their super, he said the real question was, are they ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... sanctions would hurt 'the West' as much as it hurts Vlad. This is perhaps one of the reasons behind Wall Street's downing overnight despite reports that US consumer confidence surged to a better than expected 90.9 reading in July - the highest since ...