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Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
You kiddin' me? I had to go through not one, not two, nor three but several websites to verify what I was reading Saturday morning (Melbourne time), that Wall Street jumped - with the S&P 500 index's Friday surge erasing all of the losses it made from ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to follow Wall Street's lead and open higher despite the US ordering air strikes and food and water drops in northern Iraq. At 0805 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up 37 points at ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened lower as tensions increase over Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts. Australia's market followed negative leads on Wall Street overnight with all three major US exchanges ending the day in the red. The Dow Jones ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after international bourses extended their declines with investors still concerned over conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and Argentina's debt default. At 0802 AEST on Monday, the September share ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The Australian sharemarket has opened flat following soft leads on Wall Street. The Dow Jones finished 0.08 per cent higher at 16,443.34 overnight after Russia imposed fresh sanctions against the West and Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox withdrew an ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
..."but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down" (continued from yesterday's blurb). Small and almost flat they may be, but gains in the major indices were enough to take Wall Street up again after getting knocked down the previous day through ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street closed little changed. At 0803 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was down eight points at 5,450. Locally, in economic news on Thursday, The Australian Bureau ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower following negative leads from Wall Street and fears the conflict in Ukraine is set to worsen. US stocks fell sharply overnight with investors also selling shares amid fears of a Wall Street correction. The ...

Tit-for-tats and all that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
Oh well, at least I got that one right. Er, half right to be fully correct. I was so wrong in thinking that the growing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan as the next big 'crisis' to watch out for but I was bloody right that it would be Vlad that ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following the lead of Wall Street which fell amid anxiety about a correction and worries that the conflict in Ukraine could worsen. At 0810 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract ...