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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Resources stocks are driving the Australian share market towards the key 6,000 mark following gains in commodity prices.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street gained on Friday with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both reaching new record highs.

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Gauging by the recent performance of the currency and stock markets, it certainly has no reason to countenance an adjustment at this time.

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
The Australian share market has opened higher as investors pile into resources stocks.

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
The outlook for capital expenditure adding to Australia's GDP from anywhere outside of mining is "abysmal" according to BlackRock investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller.

Women outperforming all men boardrooms

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
A recently launched gender diversity index is showing ASX200 companies who have more than 25% of women on their boards are outperforming all male boardrooms by more than 7% per annum.

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
Rip van Winkle would have thought it was an ordinary day in the life of the tech market if he went to bed on 10 March 2000 - when the benchmark tech index was at 5,048.62 points - and woke up 15 years and 31 days later.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains on Wall Street overnight.

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
The share market has fallen after the release of weak manufacturing data from the world's second largest economy.

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country.