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AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open solidly higher after international markets returned to positive territory following heavy losses earlier in last week. At 0810 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 68 points at ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
"Dead cat bounce" andA "Catch a falling knife." These phrases have crept back into financial market vernacular lately. We read and hear about these phrases mostly during phases when the financial markets are in a state of flux and/or heightened volatility ...

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 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Local shares are rebounding as a surge in iron ore prices boosts the big miners. Higher commodity prices were also boosting other sectors, and are likely to help break the share market's recent losing streak, CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner ...

Un-taper re-reflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Like a dog with a bone, financial markets have latched onto growth - or more precisely, the lack of it - and wouldn't let go. Wall Street remains in no mood for celebration even as America commemorated the day Christopher Columbus discovered their land ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street tumbled with the Nasdaq dropping two per cent amid anxiety over global growth. At 0645 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was down 38 points at 5,120. Locally ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
Uh-oh, looks like the Wall Street seesaw has just been whipsawed. Wall Street's action - and their presumed causes -- over the past three days are summed up in Bloomberg's headlines over the past three days: S&P 500 Falls to Nine-Week Low on Global ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open sharply lower after heavy falls on Wall Street where oil and coal stocks led the tumble as the price of oil continued a multi-week decline. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract ...