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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 RBA meeting day and the overwhelming consensus is for the Australian central bank to do nothing. Seems like pretty good odds to me. No doubt the Board would be talkin' bout talks of Fed tapering and yes, the talked about again China slowing as ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
After sharp falls in its previous 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 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened lower as local investors worried about comments out of China that its government is less committed to strong growth. The market is about half a per cent lower, which follows similar-sized losses on Wall Street ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Australia appears to have started this new week, new month, new quarter new financial year with a little bit more stride in its steps. This could be because of the world's biggest central bankers' comforting ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following a Wall Street surge after investors took weak economic data as a sign the Federal Reserve would maintain its aggressive bond-buying program, and after Labor dumped Julia Gillard as leader. At ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
Times like these, I can't tell if the financial market commentariat are just thick or simply plain stupid. Wall Street's up last night - and big time at that - because one 'clever' writer put it down to better than expected US data releases...and the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street helped by data showing more strength and confidence in the US economy and as worries eased over a credit crunch in China. At 0645 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price ...

Super investors scrutinise companies over LDC working conditions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
ASX-listed companies are being asked to confront poor working conditions in 'least developed countries' (LDCs), with the release of a paper by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) entitled 'Labour and Human Rights Risks in Supply-Chain ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
Uh-oh, looks like it's still "not safe... very dangerous, be careful". Just when the Fed's started to deploy some official to unwind the fear that Bernanke's "tapering soon" rhetoric created, along comes China. New York Fed president Bill Dudley remarked ...