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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street despite tech stocks at one point pushing the Nasdaq Composite index down nearly two per cent. At 0805 AEST on Wednesday the June share price index futures contract was up ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after the US market lifted on the back of a solid earnings report from Citigroup and encouraging retail sales data. "It was very good news out of the US as far as both retail sales and Citigroup - they were ...

Bloomberg takes over UBS commodities indices

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
Bloomberg has negotiated a strategic partnership with UBS to allow its index business responsibility for governance, calculation, distribution and licensing of the bank's commodity indexes. From 1 July, the indexes will be renamed from the Dow Jones-UBS ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The Australian share market is trading higher, boosted by a lift in US markets and better-than-expected domestic unemployment figures. Australia's unemployment rate fell to 5.8 per cent in March, and the number of people with jobs rose 18,100 in the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open strongly higher following Wall Street's surge led by tech stocks after US Federal Reserve minutes showed no support for an early rise in interest rates. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
The Australian share market is trading higher, highlighted by a 20 per cent-plus surge in the shares of takeover target David Jones. Department store retailer David Jones had jumped 73 cents, or 22.88 per cent, to $3.92 by 1200 AEST, after the company ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
The share market has opened lower following a selloff on Wall Street overnight. Rivkin global investment manager Tim Radford said US markets finished more than one per cent lower thanks to heavy losses in tech stocks. But, he said, the local market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The share market is lower as investors follow a negative lead from Wall Street's last session. Friday's big drop in high-growth companies in the US overshadowed a solid US jobs report, Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said. "It was momentum stocks ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
The Australian share market is slightly lower as investors wait for a catalyst to give the market greater drive. Investors are hoping for inspiration from US non-farm payrolls employment data for March, to be release on Friday night, or the announcement ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after markets in the United States continued their rise overnight. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the local market's opening trade was looking pretty good after encouraging US jobs and ...