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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... sovereign bonds, to keep longer-term interest rates low. "They basically leaked the package for tomorrow, so some of the surprise for tomorrow got in the tape today," said Mace Blicksilver, director of Marblehead Asset Management. Blicksilver said earnings ...

What if SMSFs flocked to global equities in 2015?

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
Self-managed super funds (SMSF) are expected to buy $1 billion of Australian equities per month, but what if individual investors developed an appetite for global stocks at the expense of the local market? A Credit Suisse analysis of "Down-under surprises ...

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... incomes - national per capita disposable income grew by 10.1% nominal and 8.0% adjusted for inflation. Given these, the surprise 11.9% increase in retail spending and 7.9% rise in industrial production in December becomes hardly surprising. We've gotten ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
There's no question about it... the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) surprise move was the biggest story in the financial markets last week. So huge that it eclipsed everything else. It eclipsed the plunging oil price and the dropping copper price -- the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... Thursday its policy to hold down the value of the franc, which saw the currency soar. The SNB came under fire Friday for its surprise withdrawal of the floor of 1.20 francs to the euro, as the sharp rise of the currency threatens causing a slump in the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
The Australian sharemarket is lower in the wake of a surprise move by the Swiss central bank to strengthen its currency. "We're all digesting the shock of the moves in the Swiss franc overnight - that's the talk of all the trading desks," CMC Markets ...

Platinum backs US internet stocks and Asian infrastructure

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Star manager Kerr Neilson's listed investment company Platinum Capital is backing out-of-favour big-name US technology companies as well as infrastructure plays in China and India. In a quarterly update to shareholders the billionaire investor said ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
The price of crude continues to dance the limbo (how low can you go?) After a strong start, Wall Street buckled after lunch as the price of WTI dropped to a low of US$44.20 a barrel and Brent touched US$45.19. The S&P 500 index gained as much as 1.4% ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
... drag the market lower. "We're seeing all sectors in the red and the oil sector is again the worst performer, which is no surprise," he said. In the energy sector, Santos was down 17 cents to $7.12 in early trade while Woodside Petroleum had dropped 78 ...

Australian ETF Industry achieves $15bn milestone

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2015
... prices and the possibility that disappointing growth in China will negatively impact our exports, the reaction comes as no surprise and investors are therefore seeking opportunities overseas," Skelly added. Hedged international ETFs that manage currency ...