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Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... owning the Australian dollar, which we bought in the crisis, and once it got to about the eighties (80 cents to the US dollar), we started dumping our position, and by the time it got into the late nineties, we had very little Aussie dollars." "When ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... prompting speculation that the Fed would begin tapering stimulus as early as next month. Since the start of the year, the US dollar has strengthened by 15.7% against the yen, 6.5% against the pound and 2.8% against the euro. The A$ cross rates confirm ...

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... time around. There's still plenty of spare capacity due to still weak global demand. The recent strengthening in the US dollar, if it persists, would also put downward pressure on inflation. Having said all these, I still defer to my big namesake, Big ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... per cent, or 16.57 points, to 1,650.36. Leading European stock markets climbed while the euro edged lower against the US dollar as traders welcomed German investor sentiment data and digested corporate results. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading ...

Financial markets give the budget a big yawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... Not much to write home about ey? And the A$ remains below parity against greenback at US$0.9903, more because of the US dollar's general strength rather than Budget musings, if I may add. If the snippets of positive developments in America, Japan and ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... market on Monday closed flat ahead of Tuesday's federal budget and after the local currency dropped below parity with the US dollar. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 4.2 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 5,210.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... shorted the A$) meets self-fulfilling prophesy to moi. Or was it the almost across-the board US$ dollar strength? The US dollar appreciated against most of its currency pairs last week on the back to what is now claimed as a "definitely" strengthening ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... news. LONDON - European stock markets gained in thin trading, with Frankfurt hitting another record high, while the US dollar surged to a four-year record above 101 yen owing to positive US labour market data, analysts said, and as finance ministers ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... gave up 4.10 (0.12 per cent) to 3,409.17. The losses came on a day of mixed earnings reports and coincided with the US dollar breaching a key trading level against the yen, topping 100 yen for the first time in four years. LONDON - Europe's main stock ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... rose 41.49 points, or 1.26 per cent, to 3,340.62. LONDON - Europe's stock markets rose and the euro tumbled against the US dollar after the European Central Bank cut key rates to a record low in its latest effort to help break the eurozone from recession. ...