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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... three-quarters of US companies beating earnings forecasts. IG market strategist Stan Shamu said expectations were for strong US jobs numbers out on Friday, which has translated into gains for Australian risk assets such as miners. BHP Billiton jumped ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... session, as weak Chinese data outweighed a triumphant return to the bond markets in Greece and positive news from the US jobs market. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index eked out a 0.10 per cent gain to 6,641.97 points, with markets largely shrugging off ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... negative lead from Wall Street's last session. Friday's big drop in high-growth companies in the US overshadowed a solid US jobs report, Bell Potter senior adviser Stuart Smith said. "It was momentum stocks (mostly from the tech and biotech sectors) ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... looks set to open flat with Wall Street little changed as investors digest a series of economic data ahead of Friday's big US jobs report for March. At 0805 AEDT on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down six points at 5,404. US ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the local market's opening trade was looking pretty good after encouraging US jobs and manufacturing data were released a day earlier. "So, overseas, all the pointers were pretty positive, and that's always ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... this means for the on-going Fed reduction in asset purchases is that... it'll keep on going. This is because the latest US jobs report contained no new information that portends a "significant change" in the economic outlook. You know, the one Chair ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street finished mixed as a better-than-expected US jobs report helped offset anxiety over Ukraine that sent European equities lower. At 0645 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... European stock markets closed mainly higher, with investors looking beyond the Ukraine crisis to better-than-expected US jobs data and the likelihood of stronger growth for the eurozone this year. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended the day 0.19 ...

You say threshold, I say trigger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... only "a notable change in the outlook" could change that.... and the outlook is good. There is "broad improvement" in the US jobs market and that the current volatility in emerging markets "... do not pose a substantial risk to the U.S. economic outlook." ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... LONDON - European stocks ended moderately mixed on Monday, after solid gains ahead of the weekend despite poorly-received US jobs data. The Swiss stock market and franc held up after a shock vote in favour of Switzerland restricting immigration with ...