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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... In Australia, the market on Wednesday finished firmer with resource companies shaking off a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing activity. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18.0 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 5035.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... market was waiting for the release of Australian consumer price index (CPI) figures for the June quarter and Chinese manufacturing data. "I think the market is just awaiting those developments," he said. The content of those releases was likely to drive ...

Finance to fill export gap as mining boom sags

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... boost its financial services exports by exporting expertise and skills, the survey found. It can also do this by 'manufacturing' products in Australia and using these to tap into the rapidly expanding savings pool of the broader region. Technology will ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... "Australia's continuing prosperity will depend on the four fifths of our economy which is not mining or farming or manufacturing, and which, except for construction and utilities, is all services," Swan said. "We will depend on services growth for our ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... data was good. US construction spending and motor vehicle sales came in better than market expectations. The ISM manufacturing index peeked back up into expansion territory (50.9) in June with the strong gain in new orders indicating even stronger readings ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... - and present -- have come back to haunt...all at once? The ghost of China slowing. HSBC's China composite PMI - manufacturing and services - dipped into contraction territory for the first time in 10 months to 49.8 in June from 50.9 in May. The ghost ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... from $US1.3061 late in New York on Monday. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed as a pick-up in US and European manufacturing activity was offset by weakness in China. Tokyo rose 1.78 per cent, or 246.24 points, to 14,098.74 but Seoul was flat, edging ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened significantly higher as positive manufacturing data out of the United States and Europe improved investor confidence. The market is more than 1.5 per cent higher, almost regaining all of Monday's losses in the ...

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... it's not our only export market. And things are picking up in the others. Its picking up in Europe. The Eurozone's manufacturing PMI rose to a 16-month high of 48.8 in June from 48.3 in the previous month, prompting Markit Economics to declare that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... session, the Australian market looks set to open flat following gains on US and European bourses on encouraging manufacturing data out of Europe. At 0813 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was up four points to 4,692. In ...