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Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... would be added, which would have attracted more funds. Expectations that the US central bank would start raising interest rates before year-end were amplified on Tuesday after the JOLTS (Job Openings and Labour Turnover Survey) report showed a surge ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... figures, while solid, were viewed by the market as not being strong enough for the US Federal Reserve to begin raising interest rates next year. The benchmark FTSE 100 index jumped 2.32 per cent to close at 7,046.82 points, lifted by soaring share price ...

Magellan ups cash weighting to 15%

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... almost seem radical and implausible." Douglass added that "the key question is not when the Fed commences raising interest rates, but by how much."

The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... interest rates, prompted by Dallas Fed president Richard Fischer's comment that the Fed should promptly start raising interest rates before the economy reaches full employment....and then it got back up, to a high of US$0.7870 last week (24 March) - ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... the unemployment rate breached the BOE's targeted 7.0% rate (6.9% in January 2014) for when it'll start raising interest rates. Mark Carney's "it's a threshold, not a trigger" just over a year ago changed all that and moved interest rate hike speculations ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... surged after the Federal Reserve trimmed its US economic forecast and signalled a cautious approach to raising interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday advanced 227.11 points (1.27 per cent) to 18,076.19. The broad-based S&P 500 ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... 500 have bolted to fresh records after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen pledged a cautious approach to raising interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday rose 92.35 points (0.51 per cent) to 18,209.19, besting Friday's record by about ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... losses to finish little-changed as Federal Reserve meeting minutes suggested it would wait longer before raising interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 17.73 points (0.10 per cent) to 18,029.85. The broad-based S&P 500 lost a scant 0.66 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... policy statement, in which it described US economic growth as "solid" but pledged a "patient" approach to raising interest rates. LONDON - Greek stocks took a hammering after the country's new anti-austerity government pressed home demands for debt relief ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... before you jump and conclude that this would reduce the time in "considerable time" before the Fed starts raising interest rates, note that the inflation component in the report showed input prices contracting - down to 44.5 from 53.5 in October - thanks ...