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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher this week on the back of gains in global markets.

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after markets in the United States lifted overnight and iron ore prices stabilised.

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
What gives? What gives is that investors don't know.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set to open higher after Wall Street posted modest gains overnight.

Easy CBs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
Two minutes and a policy announcement and what have we got? More of the same - the same pledge, promise, commitment, indication that the world's biggest lenders of last resort would keep lending... at cheap as chips rates.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set for a positive start to trade, after Wall Street lifted when the US Federal Reserve confirmed no change to its interest rate plans.

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened lower as further falls in iron ore prices hit the mining sector.

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Though what New York Fed president William Dudley said was relegated to paragraph 12 in today's Bloomberg commentary - it didn't fit with Wall Street's performance of the day - it was an important insight into the Fed's head.

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set for a weak start after Wall Street fell due to lower than expected earnings from several retailers.

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is lower as further falls in iron ore prices weigh on the mining sector.