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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
The share market is higher after retail stocks bounced back from their recent slump. Strong manufacturing data out of China earlier this week and signs consumer sentiment in Australia is picking up have rekindled demand for consumer related shares ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... by the polar vortex. The June quarter should be better. Fresher data releases show US consumer confidence rising, manufacturing expansion gaining momentum, the labour market improving and the housing sector strengthening. Good perhaps but not yet good ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
The share market has opened weaker following mixed leads overnight from overseas markets. China's best manufacturing activity data in six months helped spark gains in Australia on Monday and in base metals, but US stocks were flat while European markets ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... scheduled in Melbourne. In Australia, the market on Monday posted solid gains as investors were buoyed by China's best manufacturing activity data in six months. The HSBC's manufacturing activity index in June rose to its highest reading for 2014, at ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... Street given economic news reports over the past 24 hours. Certainly not Markit Economics' flash estimate of US manufacturing PMI - up to a better-than-expected 57.5 in June from 56.4 in May - nor the 4.9% jump in US existing home sales in May that followed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... US," she said. "That's created a bit of a brighter mood in the US." All eyes would be on the HSBC flash Chinese manufacturing figures for June at 1145 AEST, Ms Roadley said. In local news, grocery wholesaler Metcash, owner of the IGA supermarket brand ...

Financial services falling behind in online transactions

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... 30%. This number compared to 52% of businesses in the information media and telecommunications industry, 48% in the manufacturing sector, 50% in wholesale trade and 38% in the retail sector. "As more and more Australians move to mobile devices and transact ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... quickened to 8.8% in the year to May from 8.7% in the previous month. Both the official and HSBC's measure of China's manufacturing PMI increased in May from April. There's something good happening in China... and the A$ knows it.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose, taking their cue from another record close on Wall Street following improved manufacturing data in the United States and China. Tokyo closed up 0.66 per cent, or 98.33 points, at 15,034.25, the first time the benchmark ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... trade ignoring positive leads out of the US overnight. US markets scaled record highs following a solid report on US manufacturing activity, while European markets were flat on soft German inflation data. IG chief market strategist Chris Weston said ...