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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... strategist Mike Burrowes said the local unit did well to retain much of its value overnight amid renewed strength in the US dollar. "That saw the kiwi and the euro fall but relative to all that, the Aussie has held up better and was the only currency ...

No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... It tells you that no one really believes the USA will no longer be AAA because it cannot pay its debts. Because the US dollar remains the most dominant international reserve currency, as long as it's got its printing press and trees are growing on planet ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... Nikkei-225 index fell 27.02 points to 9,936.12, while the Topix index shed 3.65 points, or 0.42 per cent, to 856.88 amid US dollar weakness after Moody's rating agency threatened the debt-saddled US with a downgrade. The Nikkei index briefly entered ...

BetaShares adds major currencies to ETF range

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... JPMorgan Chase Bank, will be available to retail investors at wholesale rates, according to BetaShares, which also has a US dollar ETF. "Our analysis shows investors who purchased British Pounds or Euros via a major bank were paying well over 10 times ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... quiet market conditions are going to be endemic until mid-August," Mr Morrow said. Companies with a large proportion of US dollar-denominated earnings, such as CSL, BHP, Cochlear, Rio, News Corp and Newcrest, were doing well on Tuesday, after the Australian ...

China not exporting inflation: AMP/AXA

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... said Dutton. "The price of China's exports to the US has been consistently falling over the last decade but because the US dollar has been falling, it looks like the price of China's exports has been on the rise." The price of Chinese exports is individual ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... we get a soft GDP number, that could exacerbate the slide that we've seen in the Australian dollar." Ms Lien said the US dollar still was unpopular with traders, but there would have to be better economic data from Australia for the Australian currency ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... negative news on Friday night. "There was all manner of negative news driving the currency lower and that spurred a bout of US dollar strength," Mr Jones said from Wellington. "Given that backdrop, it was actually a pretty impressive performance from ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... a flight to safety." Check your charts Danny boy and you'll see that even with the 2.5 per cent appreciation of the US dollar versus most currencies in "the first few weeks of May" as you say, the US dollar index - measured against both the majors and ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... agreement is August 2. In his outlook for global equities, Eisinger said last year's market was all about one trade: US dollar down and commodities up. He told Financial Standard that was more a function of the interest rate differential with US rates ...