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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... per cent on reports it enlisted investment bankers to approach potential buyers of the company. LONDON - The London stock market sank as Britons voted in a general election set to be the closest in a generation. The capital's FTSE 100 index of leading ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... labour market. Fed Chair Yellen, addressing a conference on lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, characterised US stock market valuations as "quite high" and said they pose "potential dangers" to financial stability. Chris Low, chief economist at ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... European stocks erased all of Monday's gains on Tuesday as a spike in the euro and European bond yields unnerved a stock market rally that has been built on both being lower," said analyst Jasper Lawler at CMC Market UK. HONG KONG - Asian stocks have ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0700 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 29 points at 5,835. US stocks gained some ground following the first rise in US factory ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... the world have been selling a few days before the 1st of May. It'll be a pain tracking down the number of days each stock market fell so we'll just look at the sum of the whole - the MSCI developed and emerging equity market indices - both have fallen ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street finished mostly higher. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 5,937. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Financial ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fell as investors awaited Apple earnings results and a Federal Reserve policy meeting. At 0816 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5,981. In ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... Greece, the Athex index finished 3.39 per cent higher after earlier gains on Friday of over four per cent. Madrid's stock market wound up 0.22 per cent ahead, and Milan ended the day with a 0.98 per cent rise. The euro firmed to $US1.0865 from $US1.0823 ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
In three days time, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will again meet to talk about monetary policy. Chances are there's little chance of a change in policy settings. The BOJ board would decide to keep settings as they did at the 7-8 April gabfest -- key interest ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0654 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 27 points at 5,858. In the US, the Nasdaq index smashed its 15-year-old record Thursday ...