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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... scheduled to speak at the Melbourne Mining Club. In Australia, the market on Wednesday rose with signs of stronger manufacturing activity in China outweighing a blowout in Australia's trade deficit. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index added 79.5 points, or ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... helped the Australian share market to open higher, after Wall Street stocks surged to new records. Strong Chinese manufacturing figures and surprisingly good US car sales pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 to record closing highs ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... enough for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates next year." Bloomberg was undoubtedly referring to the ISM manufacturing and Markit manufacturing PMI reports released last night... and why stop when you're on a good thing... there's also the US ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... set to open higher after Wall Street stocks barrelled to new records, following strong US car sales and Chinese manufacturing data. At 0645 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 19 points at 5,359. At the closing ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... Dun and Bradstreet business expectations survey is due out, as is the Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for the same month. In equities news, the market is waiting to find out whether a $1.37 billion takeover of Goodman ...

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 ...