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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... dollar's momentum continued to be strong due to ongoing buoyancy in commodity prices and protracted weakness in the US dollar. "I don't think anyone was predicting that two or three months ago. The view was it would struggle around parity and come back," ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... previous close. Investors aren't demanding a premium to hold US bonds. Investors haven't forgotten after all! And the US dollar is also higher. Oh yes, the spins on cycberspace are all because the "credit-rater's" warning (threat?) could serve as a catalyst ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... morning. Market heavyweights BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto were slightly weaker despite commodity prices rising overnight on US dollar weakness. BHP Billiton eased 31 cents to $47.64 while Rio Tinto was down 15 cents at $85.95. Woodside was four cents higher ...

State Street adds to ETF stable

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... steady growth," said Goodlad. Further evidence of the ongoing appetite for ETFs is the level of support for BetaShares' US dollar ETF offering, which has quadrupled in size over the last month, reaching $50 million in AUM. BetaShares has passed $120 ...

Future Fund climbs sovereign league tables

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... figures from alternative investment research firm Preqin. The report compares the world's sovereign wealth funds in US dollar terms and valued the Future Fund at US$71 billion this year, putting it just outside the top 10 funds on the global league table. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... cent higher on news that the Group of Seven major industrialised countries have agreed to support Japan's economy. The US dollar also surged against the yen on news that the G7 had agreed on joint intervention to stem a rise in the yen after the Japanese ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... prime minister said four crippled reactors at a nuclear power plant were leaking dangerous amounts of radiation. The US dollar dropped to its lowest point in almost 16 years against the Japanese yen, briefly falling under 80 yen. A stronger yen hurts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... non-farm payrolls preview, job growth needed to exceed 250,000 in order for it to be unambiguously positive for the US dollar," Ms Lien said in a research note. "February was a good but not a great month for the labour market." Wall Street closed lower ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... ending higher, after European and Asian markets were significantly lower. Oil and precious metals surged again as the US dollar dropped on tension in the Middle East and North Africa. On the ASX 24 at 0840 AEDT, the March share price index futures contract ...

US dollar fund taps retail ETF potential

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... BetaShares Capital said consumer demand for a simple way to trade currencies is behind the rapid growth of its newly listed US dollar exchange traded fund. The open-ended fund is now worth $11 million, but Drew Corbett, Head of Investment Strategy and ...