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Economics

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Not Wall Street...not anymore, gauging from it's performance last week.

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open lower despite strong gains on Wall Street following good jobs data.

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened close to one per cent higher, continuing the week's trend of significant moves both higher and lower.

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on most European markets after the eurozone and British central banks signalled that stimulus measures would continue for some time and ahead of official US employment figures for June.

Guiding it forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
"Forward guidance" has just become the phrase du jour following the Bank of England (BOE) and the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy meetings last night.

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
The Australian share market is more than one per cent higher in a fourth consecutive day of volatile, one per cent-plus moves on the market.

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
All three of America's benchmark equity indices - the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq - closed higher while most other equity markets around the world hit the dirt.

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
Australian stocks have pulled back sharply as the volatile start to the new financial year continues.

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
It could be just me, but I smell the pavement being prepared for fiscal stimulus if necessary.

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to follow Wall Street's downward lead and open lower, a day after rising 2.5 per cent and posting its biggest gains since October 6 2011.