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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
The Australian market has opened higher due to strong overseas leads and the falling Australian dollar. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said the local market was off to a positive start after Wall Street and European market posted strong gains overnight ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... the company said its first half profit had fallen 23 per cent with its fertiliser operations hit by the high Australian dollar. In economic news, the Australia Bureau of Statistics is due to release March housing finance figures, while the National Australia ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... Japanese stocks to a fresh five-year high, while new economic data signalled a sluggish recovery in China. The Australian dollar slid below parity with the greenback which surged on persistent speculation about a winding back of quantitative easing by ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... the company said its first half profit had fallen 23 per cent with its fertiliser operations hit by the high Australian dollar. In economic news, the Australia Bureau of Statistics is due to release March housing finance figures, while the National Australia ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... when he bet against the pound - declaring at the Ira Sohn Investment Conference in New York last week that the Australian dollar will, not would, will "come down and come down hard". This makes sense given his prognosis that the commodity rally is done ...

Investors need income rethink after RBA rate cut

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... RBA cut the base rate by 25 basis points to a record low of 2.75% in the wake of rising unemployment, a high Australian dollar and concerns over the performance of the economy. "In the short-term the cut is positive for the bond market but it does raise ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... finished 0.85 per cent higher. In other news on Tuesday, Whitehaven Coal said weak coal markets and a strong Australian dollar continued to impact on the company's overall performance. Whitehaven was down 2.5 cents, or 1.28 per cent, at $1.935. Westfield ...

Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Another day...another fresh record for the Dow. But... but, wasn't it only last week that financial markets were almost peeing their pants because America has turned the corner back into cactusville yet again? Remember what the headlines told us last ...

SSgA launches global equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... but not wanting to increase their domestic weighting. The unhedged ETF will appeal to investors who think the Australian dollar will go down," said SSgA Australia's head of SPDR ETFs Amanda Skelly. Skelly added that the ETFs provide Australians with ...

GSAM offers EM debt to retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... can take advantage of local currency return as well as bond yields." Reid acknowledged that the value of the Australian dollar is a key issue in this kind of investments. "If the dollar doesn't move, the investment is still attractive and investors will ...