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Market wrap - afternoon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... iron ore prices overnight, the rise had already been factored into the local market. "Iron ore had a reasonable run last night but they had been priced into yesterday's movement for the big miners BHP and Rio yesterday," he said. US stocks fell overnight ...

Altius: Role of fixed interest hazy

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... flatten out the volatility of the equity holding. These are three things, added Bovingdon that help investors sleep better at night in terms of a more balanced portfolio of their investments. He also urges investors to educate themselves about fixed ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... programme, he's got them now - employment growth is decelerating, the ISM manufacturing index is trending lower, and just last night, data on consumer credit - down by US$3.28 billion (versus expectations of a US$9.2 bil increase) - indicated that Americans ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... important jobs numbers Friday, and set a positive background for President Barack Obama's much-awaited address Thursday night to the Democratic Party's convention, kicking off the final stretch of the presidential race. Under ECB chief Mario Draghi's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... Australian shares opened flat after Wall Street was closed for a public holiday. "We, obviously, didn't have any US markets last night, the European markets were generally a little bit better and the commodities were a bit better as well," he said. "At ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... crisis. He was talking, of course, about the Draghi bond buying plan - the one that's got European equities' hopes up last night. Two days to go - when the ECB meets - we'll find out for sure. Just like the days heading into the Jackson Hole, there'll ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
Australian stocks have opened firmer amid broad-based gains as local market players looked past a poor night on Wall Street. At 1031 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 12.6 points, or 0.29 per cent, at 4,328.3 points, while the broader ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... variant perception QE is dead, long live QE! It's the eve of that much-awaited, much-speculated Big Ben QE speak but last night's bigger-than-what-we've-seen-over-past-few-day's fall suggests that participants may have given up on the thought. By now ...

The QE question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... sales, housing, industrial production and the index of leading economic indicators have shown improvement. And just last night, US real GDP growth was revised higher to an annualised rate of 1.7% in the June quarter from the initial estimate of 1.5%. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... Australian market had done well to be close to level at the start of trade after an up-and-down overnight session. "Last night world markets moved up and down by what I would call within the standard error or a normal day's activity, even though they ...