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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... meeting in Sydney. In Australia, the market on Wednesday fell heavily on a day where the negative mood among US investors overnight carried into local trading. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 58.4 points, or 1.06 per cent, lower at 5,452.5. The broader ...

All that jazz, all nonsense

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
Move on folks, go git... nothing to see here. Wall Street's down overnight on your usual garden-variety profit-taking after its record breaking climb on the eve of July 4th. Though some would have you believe something more sinister and all that jazz ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... stock market was higher in early trade following on from Wednesday's strong gains and Wall Street hitting record highs overnight. The gains mark a strong start to the new fiscal year after what has been a flat to weak period for Australian shares in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... stock market was higher in early trade following on from Wednesday's strong gains and Wall Street hitting record highs overnight. The gains mark a strong start to the new fiscal year after what has been a flat to weak period for Australian shares in ...

Slow and steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... but - this excellent one-month data point begs the question, "why, oh why, oh why was Wall Street's reaction subdued overnight when it jumped - big time - on 'sort of' good data points the night before"? Heck, the Nasdaq and the Russell 2000 indices ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... figures and surprisingly good US car sales pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 to record closing highs overnight. And strong recovery in Australian banking stocks was also giving the market a boost, IG Markets dealer Chris Weston ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... 50.8 in May and expectations of 51.1. These are the "bright and wonderful" indicators used to rationalise Wall Street's overnight bounce. Look again and you'll see that they could as easily be spun to justify a down day on Wall Street. And the spinmeisters ...

Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... Elliot, "not with a bang but a whimper. If you must know Virginia, the S&P 500 index finished a teenie-weenie 0.04% lower overnight but still managed a decent 6.1% return over the first six months of this year in spite of several bumps along the way. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
The share market was slightly weaker at noon after falls on Wall Street overnight and poor spending data in the US provided negative leads. A higher iron ore price has given some miners a boost, while energy, telecommunications and utilities are doing ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... this year, down from 6.1%-6.3%; inflation at 1.5%-1.7%, up from 1.5%-1.6%. And, last point... promise. Data released overnight show that while the PCE price index - the Fed's favoured measure of inflation - has advanced closer to the Fed's target (1.8% ...