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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened higher following positive leads from Wall Street and a raft of encouraging local earnings results, including telecommunications giant Telstra. Despite lucklustre retail sales data all the major US markets gained ...

Because I'm happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... related to outright purchases in the ABS market to enhance the functioning of the monetary policy transmission mechanism." Wall Street's happy - S&P 500 up 0.7% to a two-week high - for the bad US retail sales report (released overnight) conjures happy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street rose despite a lacklustre US retail sales report and some disappointing earnings announcements. At 0805 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was up 25 points ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street fell following disappointing German economic data and ahead of Wednesday's report on US retail sales. At 0804 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up four ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market is higher following gains on Wall Street and in Europe overnight. The lift comes after gains of more than one per cent on major European indices and a smaller rise on Wall Street. Patterson's Securities economist Tony Farnham ...

CBA appoints international experts to oversee advice program

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
Jeff Carmichael's Promontory Financial Group has been appointed independent expert for the Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) Open Advice Review program. The appointment follows a series of announcements made ahead of the company results, which will be released ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to follow Wall Street's lead and open higher despite the US ordering air strikes and food and water drops in northern Iraq. At 0805 AEST on Monday, the September share price index futures contract was up 37 points at ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... through not one, not two, nor three but several websites to verify what I was reading Saturday morning (Melbourne time), that Wall Street jumped - with the S&P 500 index's Friday surge erasing all of the losses it made from Monday to Thursday last week ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... opened lower as tensions increase over Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts. Australia's market followed negative leads on Wall Street overnight with all three major US exchanges ending the day in the red. The Dow Jones dropped 75.07 points to 16,368.27 ...

Super tax in firing line

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... concessional contributions now worth $16 billion and forecast to grow to $20.7 billion, the writing could well be on the wall for a tax raid on high income earners contributions. Joining Caton in the breakfast discussion were RBC Capital Market managing ...