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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,615. US stocks have pushed higher overnight as oil prices cooled and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba soared on strong sales. Locally on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... longer. Inflation is beginning to stir and inflation expectations are rising - not less because of the bottoming/rebounding oil price (exacerbated by a weakening US dollar). To be sure, to be sure, the risk of deflation has eased but with slack still ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... $US1.13. HONG KONG - Asian stocks have lost ground as China's market declined and US markets fell on worries about surging oil prices. South Korean shares lost 1.3 per cent or 27.65 points to end at 2,104.58, and Hong Kong ended down 114.63 points or ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... the June share price index futures contract was down 50 points at 5,754. US stocks tumbled overnight on worries about higher oil prices and tensions over the slow progress in the Greek debt negotiations. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.79 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... and National Australia Bank added 30 cents, or 0.83%, to $36.59. The major miners were mixed with gains in iron ore, copper, oil and gas prices overnight and falls in precious metals, including gold. Diversified miner BHP Billiton was down 51 cents to ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... in opening-weekend box-office sales, close to the all-time record of $US207.4 million set by an earlier "Avengers" movie. Oil and gas producer Pioneer Natural Resources fell 1.9 per cent as money manager David Einhorn lambasted the company at an investor ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... than be complacent." Douglass described the current market environment as "anything but normal" and referred to the fall in oil prices, the appreciation of the US dollar, falling Chinese growth and poor economic data in the US in recent months. All of ...

Pubs satisfying BlackRock income thirst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... bank monetary policies to diverge and so far this year most central bank action has been on the easing side. He said lower oil prices have also created both risks and opportunities within emerging markets. As of December last year BlackRock had about ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... sending deflationary winds to the region. Lawson noted that countries such as India or Korea should benefit from the fall in oil prices because they are both importers of commodities. But he said that, overall, Standard Life's Investment outlook for ...

When?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... Q4 2014. But the FOMC thinks that "this too shall pass", it's due to "transitory factors" -- it's the weather, it's crude oil, it's the US dollar. It's the weather. Another severe winter in America has kept American consumers at home and off the shops. ...