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AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... of Statistics releases August lending finance figures. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday lost $34 billion in its largest daily fall in 15 months because of renewed concerns about global economic growth. The benchmark ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... Wall Street where oil and coal stocks led the tumble as the price of oil continued a multi-week decline. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was down 52 points at 5,227. Locally, in economic news on Friday, the Australian ...

LMCI: a new indicator is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Mother's made an outing last Friday night in America - and she came bearing good tidings. Mother, of course, is the US non-farm payrolls report - considered "the mother of all economic statistics". US employment increased by 248K last month following ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... looks set to open lower after an almost flat end to trading in on Wall Street and a fall in metals prices. At 0651 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was down 21 points at 5,262. The stock market in New York had a mixed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... mining stocks." The market is awaiting official Chinese manufacturing data, due out at 11am AEST. Key US job figures out on Friday will also influence local stocks. Mr Daghlian said China's National Day celebrations, which takes Hong Kong and Shanghai ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down"... but I get up again. Wall Street's major equity market recovered most of Thursday's losses Friday. Was it because iPhone 6 Plus aren't going bendy bendy anymore and that it has fixed its app bug? Was it because Putin's ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... executive Alan Joyce is slated to launch the carrier's A380 service from Sydney to Dallas. In Australia, the market on Friday lost all the gains it made in 2014, with a fall of more than one per cent. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was DOWN 68.8 points ...

'Bond King' Bill Gross leaves Pimco

AAP  |  SATURDAY, 27 SEP 2014
... rival. Bill Gross, who co-founded the investment giant Pimco in 1971 and runs its $US222 billion Total Return Fund, said on Friday he would join Janus Capital Group. The prospect that investors would follow the guru-like fund manager and pull their money ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... Australian market looks set to open markedly lower after Wall Street fell more than one-and-a-half per cent. At 0805 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was down 53 points at 5,318. Locally, in economic news on Friday, Reserve ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... 100 index dropped 0.94 per cent to 6,773.63 points and in Paris the CAC 40 slid 0.42 per cent to 4,442.55 compared with Friday's close. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index had initially been lifted by the announcement that Merck KGaA is to buy US speciality chemicals ...