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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat following a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight after a mediocre report on US economic growth and the latest batch of uneven corporate earnings reports. At 0733 AEST on Monday, the June share price ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street gained on positive US jobless figures. At 0754 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 5,127. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
"Your love keeps liftin' me higher Than I've ever been lifted before..." - Jackie Wilson No Virginia, it's not about Wall Street this time...this time investors are back lovin' made-in-Japan stocks...lifting the Nikkei perhaps not higher than it's been ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
I hate to tell you I told you so but...I told you so. Yes Virginia, I hate to tell you I told you so but...I told you so. Yes Virginia, the Fed's monetary magic continues to work its magic on the equity markets. Wall Street's running up and setting ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
The Australian share market has opened flat despite a lift in overseas markets overnight. Early trading was marked by a massive 30 per cent drop in the shares of troubled surfwear retailer Billabong. Billabong said after the market had closed on Tuesday ...

Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Another day...another fresh record for the Dow. But... but, wasn't it only last week that financial markets were almost peeing their pants because America has turned the corner back into cactusville yet again? Remember what the headlines told us last ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher after investors regained some of their appetite to buy. The big miners and the major banks made early gains. IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said investors were using recent dividend payments to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... $1.3001 from $1.3004 late in New York on Friday. The yen tumbled against the US dollar in the wake of last week's Bank of Japan (BoJ) stimulus announcement. The greenback surged to 99.01 yen, which was the highest level since May 2009. It later pulled ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower after weak US employment figures late last week. At 0750 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was five points lower at 4,890, with 5,092 contracts traded. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
The Australian stock market has opened flat, with gains by the two big miners offset by weakness among healthcare companies and major retailers. Macquarie Private Wealth division director Lucinda Chan said investors were absorbing the latest announcements ...