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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... by last week's deal in Washington to avert a default and a record close on Wall Street. The yen slipped against the US dollar and euro in Monday afternoon trading after data showed Japan logged a record 15th consecutive monthly trade deficit. Tokyo rose ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... net profit to $US2.97 billion, or $US8.75 a share. LONDON - European stock markets climbed and the euro hit a fresh US dollar high as traders cheered accelerating Chinese growth. Frankfurt's DAX 30 climbed 0.60 per cent to set a new record close at 8,865.1 ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... short-term lifting of its debt ceiling has buoyed Australian equities. Among the reasons for that were a fall in the US dollar boosting some commodities such as gold and feeding through to local equities, IG market strategist Stan Shamu said. "We are ...

Praemium to host 5 more BetaShares ETFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... practices," he said. The newly included BetaShares ETFS are the BetaShares FTSE RAFI Australia 200 ETF, the BetaShares US Dollar ETF, the BetaShares Gold Bullion ETF, the BetaShares Australian High Interest Cash ETF and the BetaShares Australian Top ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... President Barack Obama's offer of a short-term deal to end the crisis. There was also broad support for stocks and the US dollar on news that Obama would nominate Janet Yellen to take over from Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chief, raising hopes the ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... budget standoff enters its eighth day with no end in sight, stoking worries of a catastrophic default. Meanwhile, the US dollar stabilised against the euro and rose against the yen, while the price of gold climbed. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... create headwinds for the single currency area through the appreciation of the euro -it's regaining strength against the US dollar. The euro is now fetching US$1.36, 6.1% above the 2013 low of US$1.28. It started weakening on Fed taper talks but rebounded ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013
... on hopes that the shutdown would be short-lived. LONDON - European stock markets fell but the euro soared against the US dollar as Italy averted a political crisis and the European Central Bank (ECB) signalled more efforts to boost eurozone recovery. ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... 6,460 points, as mining stocks took a hit from Chinese manufacturing data. The euro hit the highest point against the US dollar in eight-and-a-half months at $1.3588 before pulling back to $1.3539, which compared with $1.3524 late on Monday. HONG KONG ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... slumped as the US government edged towards a shutdown over a budget battle. The face-off in Washington also sent the US dollar lower, while the euro suffered selling pressure from a crisis in Italy that has left the country's five-month-old government ...