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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... lost 1.57 per cent to 9,510.01 points. London's market was additionally weighed down by miners suffering sharp drops in commodity prices, especially metals, partly fuelled by the sudden rise in the dollar. Morning trading in Europe was largely positive ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... between whether a country tends to run a current account deficit or surplus, and secondly whether it is primarily a commodity or manufactured goods exporter." Power explained that by this theory, oil exporters could be grouped in the north-east bloc ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... fall of around 20 per cent - on a combination of the lower interest rate differential and slumping GDP growth, with commodity price effects outweighing volumes." Wait, hold your horses, hang on. The A$ weakening below US$0.75? That's not bad news. A ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... lower as the big four banks and resources companies suffer significant falls. Shares were being weighed down by lower commodity prices, ongoing concerns about conflict in Iraq and Syria, and talk the US Federal Reserve will lift interest rates more quickly ...

ASX tees up $65m Yieldbroker deal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... and New Zealand governments and several Australian state governments. It has received 'no-action' relief from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), allowing it to provide direct access to US persons to transact interest rate swaps on its ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... finishing lower, the Australian share market has opened higher on reports of a new Chinese stimulus plan and a rise in commodity prices. Wall Street stocks rallied overnight on reports that the People's Bank of China is providing $US81.4 billion ($A88.1 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... going to be the worst week in about a month," he said. He said miners were generally higher despite a further slide in commodity prices. "Today we are seeing weakness in almost all sectors, with the exception of the miners," he said. "There's an element ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... string of companies, including Woolworths and Brambles, trading ex-dividend. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said weak commodity prices were also hurting mining stocks. "We continue to see weakness in iron ore and gold and other commodities and this ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... higher, breaking a run of four straight losses, as the resources sector bounced back from its recent hit from falling commodity prices. At the close on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 30.9 points, or 0.55 per cent, at 5,607.9, while the ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014