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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower following mixed performances on international markets overnight. At 0754 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was down nine points at 5053. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... 0.4 per cent after opening on Thursday, despite a 0.14 per cent fall on Wall Street. The US Federal Reserve announced overnight it would continue its bond buying program to support economic growth, but didn't give a clear indication as to when the $85-billion-a-month ...

Smokers' cough up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... of the best performers with its shares up 62 cents, or 5.19 per cent, at $12.57. "The gold price was up about $US42 overnight, the best daily improvement of 2013, so keep your eye on the gold miners today," Mr Daghlian said. Among the larger miners ...

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... afterglow of Big Ben Bernanke's comforting words. In fact 'twas so good the Dow and the S&P 500 closed at fresh record highs overnight. So deym excellent that even Greece's stock market surged - the Athens SE General Index jumped by 1.71%. Oh pardon ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
The Australian market has opened higher after the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 surged to record highs overnight. The local market continued to rally on Friday morning after three days of gains, opening around half a per cent higher. This ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Australian stocks have opened higher following a positive lead from global markets overnight. The market is up close to one per cent, more than offsetting Monday's 0.6 per cent losses. CommSec market analyst Steven Daghlian said Australian stocks were ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... gains that has marked the first week of the financial year. US markets were closed for the Independence Day holiday overnight, and local investors have followed market gains in Europe, where the European Central Bank said it remained accommodative to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... accelerate the Western Cooper Wet Gas project commercialisation. The miners were up following gains in iron ore prices overnight, which lifted to $US120 a tonne. Heavyweight BHP Billiton had gained 17 cents to 31.22 and Rio Tinto had improved 25 cents ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... at $31.39 and Rio Tinto had dropped $1.28 to $51.79. Local investors received a negative lead from overseas markets overnight, with reports of further tension between the European Union and Greece over the country's bailout funding, and concerns about ...