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Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... market is getting back to its basic level after the gyrations caused by the situation in Ukraine." Wall Street fell overnight after a report showed only modest private-sector jobs growth in the US in February. BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto tumbled in opening ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... and so what were lost during Putin's "exercises" were recovered... and then some. The S&P 500 index rebounded by 1.5% overnight, more than recovering the 0.74% it lost as Putin "exercised". So did the FTSE-100 index - up 1.7% from down 1.5%. The Euro ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... 2008, doing it now in Ukraine, tomorrow... ??? I don't think he even blinked at the Russian stock market's 11% drop overnight or the impact on Russia's already slowing economy of the Russian Central Bank's decision to lift interest rates by 150 bps to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... encouraging," she said. "The big miners are also looking much more well supported, after we saw the iron or price rise overnight." In the resources sector, BHP Billiton was up 28 cents at $38.66, Rio Tinto had lifted $1.03 to $67.63, and Fortescue Metals ...

A tall tale of a good story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... kept out of it - "U.S. Stocks Fall After Weaker Housing, Confidence Data" says Bloomberg. Sure, the S&P 500 index fell overnight - but by only an itsy bitsy teenie weenie 0.1% and this dip followed the previous day's record high breaking finish. But ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... securities worth $970.1 million. AAP gr/cdh SYDNEY, Feb 25 AAP - The Australian sharemarket has opened higher after solid overnight leads from Wall Street. An accelerating February rally has helped the US broad-based S&P 500 close less than a point away ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... years." Amber. That's the flashing light for the Eurozone equities. The Euro Stoxx 50 index barely budged (up 0.03% overnight). This is because Markit's flash PMI reading for the region was neither here nor there. The composite PMI slipped a bit to 52.7 ...

FoFA changes must go before parliament: Collins

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... original legislation to qualify as regulations. "The FoFA reforms were many years in the making," he said. "These weren't overnight reforms. Scandals including Westpoint, Great Southern, Storm and Trio culminated in a parliamentary inquiry which found ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
Australian stocks have opened higher following strong gains on international markets overnight. The local market is around half a per cent higher at 1030 AEDT, following a more than one per cent rise across Wall Street's major indices. Commsec market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
The Australian sharemarket has staged a moderate recovery to buck a negative lead from the US overnight. After spending three consecutive days in the red, stocks were up two-thirds of a per cent soon after the open. This is despite Wall Street having ...