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Aust shares open more than 1pc higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... open follows similar gains on Wall Street overnight, following positive retail and unemployment data and a rise in the US dollar against the Japanese Yen. Rivkin global analyst Tim Radford said if the gains stayed strong all day along with an improving ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... cent at 8095.39 points. HONG KONG - Asian markets dived, with Tokyo's Nikkei losing more than six per cent, while the US dollar hit 10-week lows against the yen on expectations that central banks' monetary easing measures will end soon. Dealers in emerging ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... currently. US bond prices - as measured by the JP Morgan GBI US all maturities index -- have fallen by around 1.2% and the US dollar strengthened since markets interpreted Fed Chairman Bernanke's statement on 22 May as hinting of scaling back its stimulus ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... a slowdown in the world's number two economy. Tokyo rallied 4.94 per cent, surging 636.67 points to 13,514.20 as the US dollar clawed back some of last week's losses against the yen. Seoul added 0.46 per cent, or 8.85 points, to close at 1,932.70. Hong ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... Ordinaries index was down 53.4 points, or 1.11 per cent, to 4,771.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks swung erratically as the US dollar sank and bond prices rose, but finished higher a day ahead of the government's release of US employment data for May. ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... told AAP. "They'll take their money out of our market now and park it in the currency which is going up, which is the US dollar, and then probably come back later at a level that they're more comfortable with." Banking stocks are also weaker, with Commonwealth ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... up over the course of the day on Tuesday after early selling fuelled by the downbeat US figures, which had pushed the US dollar lower against the yen. Tokyo ended up 2.05 per cent, or 271.94 points, at 13,533.76 as the US dollar moved back above Y100 ...

Downswing in bond yields clear path for Absolute Return Fixed Income

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... economy. While Djounov acknowledges that it is a crowded trade, most investors are pairing the currency with a short on the US dollar, which has a high correlation to the S&P 500. "These investors are not really buying the Mexican story, they are buying ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... rates and hit home prices, raise the US yield differential against other sovereign offerings that would increase the US dollar exchange rate that would reduce exports. The economy weakens. Like I said, #whatIsaidyesterday.

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
Australian stocks were marginally weaker at noon as a fall in the Australian dollar encourages investors to sell banking shares. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said offshore selling of high-yielding stocks continued as the Australian dollar ...