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Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... industries and reduced the foreign earnings of US companies operating offshore when their revenues are translated back into US dollars. Sound familiar to us Australians, ey? This should keep the Fed in play for a little while longer than most expect. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... sector. "A stronger US dollar is not good for anyone, especially if you consider that commodities are generally priced in US dollars," he said. Global miner BHP Billiton hovered at $35.82, and Rio Tinto reversed five cents to $63.05. Among the major ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... to confirm a recovering US economy and the decreasing need of quantitative easing gave investors reason to take up US dollars," Mr Audencial said. BHP Billiton was down 44 cents, or 1.24 per cent, at $35.17, while Rio Tinto had lost 43 cents, or 0.66 ...

Alphington targets younger HNW investors with wealth service

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... market over a short period, often missing the key points. He gave a recent example of a client with $10 million in US dollars and $3 million in Australian dollars, all sitting in cash. "They were running between the banks trying to get the best rate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... Asia-Pacific stock markets extended a global rally after the world's most powerful central banks offered to inject US dollars into lenders squeezed by the eurozone debt crisis. The European Central Bank and its US, Japanese, Swiss and British counterparts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... prices rose Thursday, buoyed by a wave of market euphoria over a coordinated effort by five central banks to provide US dollars to cash-squeezed European banks. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in October, climbed 49 US cents ...

Omega bond launch timed for asset allocation shift

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... we want to be more diversified than the benchmark and a great way to do that is to buy Australian issuers in either US dollars or Euros and hedge it back to Australian dollars."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... gained strength because of the improved risk appetite in the market," Ms Lien said from New York. "People are selling US dollars and buying high-yielding currencies in the hope that the Federal Reserve will do more on Friday. At 0700 (AEST) on Wednesday ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... bonds with US$1.16 trillion worth of Treasuries as of May, called for international supervision of the issuance of US dollars and a new global reserve currency after the downgrade. "China, the largest creditor of the world's sole superpower, has every ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... executive Paul Xiradis said strong corporate earnings in the US had boosted Australian stocks. Companies that earned in US dollars, such as NewsCorp and Brambles, were not as strong, but still in the black. At 1208 AEST, NewsCorp was up 12 cents at $17.35 ...