Our Markets, Asia Under Pressure Today, AUD Still Strong
Aussie shares are heading for a big fall when trading starts this morning on the ASX.
Read MoreAussie shares are heading for a big fall when trading starts this morning on the ASX.
Read MoreCommSec’s Juliette Saly provides an afternoon market report. The share market has started the trading week in the red.
Read MoreNote: This article was originally published on Oliver’s Insights on 3 April 2014 and has been republished with permission from the original author.
Read MoreFlat trading has dominated the early session for local stocks on Friday as investors await key jobs data from the US.
Read MoreReserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens has once again thrown down the gauntlet to everyone in the country to have a real debate about taxes, growth and other economic issues.
Read MoreThere was nothing in yesterday’s data flow to change anyone’s thinking on the health and direction of the economy – still ambling along, growing below trend and not showing any signs of exuberance.
Read MoreA surprise from the National Australia Bank (NAB) yesterday with CEO Cameron Clyne announcing that he will retire in August.
Read MoreCommSec’s Juliette Saly delivers an afternoon market report. The stock market has ended the week on a positive note.
Read MoreCommSec’s Juliette Saly provides a mid-session market update. Bank shares are holding back overall gains.
Read MoreThe Australian home building boom remains on track, as the Reserve Bank has been suggesting now for the past year.
Read MoreSmall Sydney-based women’s wear retailer Noni B (NBL) is facing another fall in earnings in the June-half after same-store sales plunged 14% in the March quarter, the company told the ASX yesterday in something of a shock.
Read MoreShares in food group Goodman Fielder (GFF) and Sydney based women’s fashionwear retailer Noni B (NBL) were smashed lower yesterday after they both produced surprises on the downside.
Read MoreLocal stocks struggled to advance today as investor anticipated the release of US data in coming days.
Read MorePoor news from Goodman Fielder (GFF) and Noni-B (NBL) has seen early gains for the ASX 200 trimmed.
Read MoreBHP Billiton (BHP) has all but confirmed it is looking at slimming down and spinning off weak or non-essential assets in alumina, aluminium, manganese, thermal coal, bauxite and nickel with a value of up to $A20 billion.
Read MoreThe Aussie dollar was buffeted yesterday by buying pressure in the wake of the expected decision by the Reserve Bank to leave interest rates on hold – and the weak report on part of China’s huge manufacturing sector from HSBC Markit.
Read MoreMixed news from Asia in a mix of start of month and quarter reports from Japan, China, Indonesia, India, South Korea and Taiwan and Australia.
Read MoreCommSec’s Juliette Saly provides an afternoon financial market update. BHP Billiton remains in focus on demerger speculation.
Read MoreCommSec’s Juliette Saly provides a Mid-session financial market update. The RBA meets today, with rates tipped to remain on hold.
Read MoreA mixed to surprisingly solid quarter for many commodities – ignoring the weakness in gold and copper’s woes – with agricultural products, such as the grains, sugar and coffee the standout performers.
Read MoreMost sharemarkets ended March on an up note in what some analysts said was a bout of window dressing (designed to lift prices and indexes and produce more fees for managers).
Read MoreAs expected, toy wholesaler Funtastic (FUN) has produced a loss and omitted an interim dividend after yet another stumble.
Read MoreMore evidence yesterday that the economy is starting to tick over a bit more quickly.
Read MoreThe Australian sharemarket had an eventful session. BHP was a standout following demerger speculation, the RBA kept rates on hold and Chinese data was mixed.
Read MoreLocal stocks have started the new trading week with solid gains, every sector measured by the ASX is trading higher at lunchtime.
Read MoreAnother big data week for Australia, and a number of other economies offshore with the monthly surveys of manufacturing and then services, a couple of central bank meetings, and to cap off the week, the all important US jobs report on Friday night – this time its for March.
Read MoreIt’s extremely rare that a book can unsettle Wall Street.
Read MoreAnother strong week for the Australian dollar, which hit a series of new four month highs in offshore trading on Friday night and early Saturday, our time.
Read MoreWhile markets were mostly mixed to slightly stronger last week, the US Nasdaq market and its plethora of tech stocks fell sharply, especially biotechs.
Read MoreThe Australian sharemarket rose by 0.5% today; however failed to maintain the 0.8% gains recorded earlier in day. Lending and new home sales rose while inflation remains contained.
Read MoreSoul Pattinson (SOL) also reported yesterday and revealed a net profit of $73.7 million for the six months to January 31, down slightly from $74.3 million in the same period a year earlier.
Read MoreFirst it was Boral (BLD) with its interim profit, revealing a sharp improvement as the local building boom kicked in – next week it will be CSR no doubt reporting signs of life.
Read MoreLogistics group Qube Holdings (QUB), chaired by former Patricks boss Chris Corrigan, continues to expand and is now eyeing the east coast grain sector.
Read MoreIs there a bit of a growth story emerging from pharmacy wholesaler, Sigma Pharmaceuticals (SIP)?
Read MoreThe ASX 200 started the day just in negative territory, although it drifted higher over the afternoon on Friday to finish within sights of the best levels of the day. The ASX 200 has gained just over 0.5% in the last 5 days.
Read MoreFor the past two months our eyes and ears have been full of stories about David Jones (DJS) or Myer (MYR), the tweedledum and tweedledee of Australian department store retailing.
Read MoreNote: This article was originally published on Oliver’s Insights on 27 March 2014 and has been republished with permission from the original author.
Read MoreThe index traded down by 7 points at the low of the day and was ahead by the same amount at its best. There has been little on offer to motivate buyers or sellers alike in terms of corporate news.
Read MoreCommSec’s Juliette Saly delivers a Mid-Session update. The market is giving back Wednesday’s gains.
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