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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
The Australian dollar was almost a US cent lower at noon, after minutes from the central bank's April board meeting confirmed that it was in no hurry to raise rates. At 1200 (AEST) on Tuesday, the local unit was trading at 104.63 US cents, down from ...

Derivatives sky high since SGX fall

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
Derivatives trading on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has reached its highest point ever, just weeks after the failed takeover bid by the Singapore Exchange (SGX). According to figures released by the ASX, the number of derivatives contracts ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
Is this the start of something big... or another dip buying op? Wall Street retreated big time last night. The S&P 500, the Dow and the Nasdaq all closed 1.1 per cent leaner. Is it perhaps investors want to gain a head start on that good 'ol adage ...

Merger gets Japan FSA thumbs up

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... between TOWER Australia and Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company (Dai-ichi Life) continues after Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA) gives the green light. The FSA has now approved the proposed acquisition of the remaining shares in TOWER Australia that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities indices flat to higher, and precious metals and oil also rising. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was four points ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... the fall in commodity prices is the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) lowering of its growth forecast for the US and Japan - and that was only yesterday. The IMF didn't do another revision - an upward revision - to these just a day after, did they? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities indices more buoyant and both gold and oil reversing recent losses. At 0734 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was nine points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
The Australian market has received negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with securities indices and key commodities all lower. At 0652 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 30 points lower at 4,887 points. In ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon on Tuesday, pulled back by mining and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 46 points, or 0.93 per cent, at 4,925.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had dropped ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
It's all quiet on the Wall Street front overnight. The US quarterly company earnings reporting season must be about to commence. Just in case. Trading volume was low and bereft of direction. The Dow was up 0.01 per cent and the S&P 500 was down 0.3 ...