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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened a touch higher, following the US lead after Wall Street edged up to new record highs. More sectors on the Australia bourse were making gains, but gold and mining stocks were the exception, pulled down by a fall ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened significantly higher as positive manufacturing data out of the United States and Europe improved investor confidence. The market is more than 1.5 per cent higher, almost regaining all of Monday's losses in the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after positive rallies on overseas markets as traders digested news of an unexpected drop in German unemployment, solid data from the US and comments from a top Federal Reserve official that the central ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
The Australian share market is expected to extend its losses in morning trade after opeing more than one per cent lower, but should make something of a late recovery into the close. The local market is still reeling from the US Federal Reserve last ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
The Australian share market is expected to extend its losses in morning trade after opeing more than one per cent lower, but should make something of a late recovery into the close. The local market is still reeling from the US Federal Reserve last ...

Still in Goldilocks land

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
This is it! The is the time, this is the moment, this is the week when the most powerful man in the world set the record straight on this whole Fed tapering/unwinding/scaling back business. Can you hear that too, Virginia? The financial markets' collective ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
The Australian stock market was flat at noon, with gains by big miners offset by weakness in the financial sector. The market opened about 0.3 per cent firmer as investors took their cues from a positive lead from Wall Street, but shares drifted back ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
Australian stocks have hit a six-week low after the OECD downgraded Australian and world economic growth forecasts, causing mining stocks to tumble. The downbeat prediction from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development also hit US ...

Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
The dramatic lift in confidence arising from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive stimulus measures has created opportunities for investment to flow between Australia and Japan in both directions, according to Nikko Asset Management chairman ...

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Old habits die hard it seems. Didn't US Federal Reserve Big Ben Bernanke already change the definition of Fedspeak to mean clarity of Fed communication of the Fed's intention on monetary policy a long time ago? The original meaning (according to Wikipedia) ...