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Markets Live: ASX slips as RBA holds

Stacks of the new Five dollar $5 note. Photo: RBA

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Shares ease and the Aussie dollar firms as RBA holds rates held steady.

RBA holds, ASX falls, $A firms

The S&P/ASX 200 lost ground on Tuesday after a strong Monday session.

The ASX was driven lower by the Reserve Bank of Australia decision to hold rates while opting not to hint at further easing.

Oil lifts on Russian-Saudi deal

"Verbal intervention was again needed to trigger a recovery towards $US50," senior ABN Amro economist Hans van Cleef said.

Oil rose after Russia and Saudi Arabia said they agreed to cooperate on stabilising the market.

RBA holds rates steady at 1.5% at Stevens' final meeting

The ASX was driven lower after the RBA kept its benchmark rate unchanged while opting not to hint at further easing.

The RBA has kept its cash rate on hold at an all-time low in the final board meeting presided over by governor Glenn Stevens before he bows out after a decade that has seen the cash rate drop from 6 per cent to 1.5 per cent.

Goldman's scenarios for 'extreme' markets

US equities are likely to remain the outperformers in most of Goldman Sachs' scenarios for markets.

While markets have been pushed to extremes, there is little consensus on where they will develop from here. Goldman Sachs has outlined four potential directions.

8@eight: ASX set to retreat on RBA day

A flood of earnings are out this morning, as well as jobs data.

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Local shares are set to open lower on the back of a soft lead from Europe while RBA chief Glenn Stevens will hand down his last interest rates decision this afternoon.

BHP sees lower prices for iron ore

Ore with 62 per cent content delivered to Qingdao has rallied 36 per cent in 2016 to $US59.39 on Friday, according to ...

BHP Billiton expects iron ore prices to begin retreating as new supply hits the market.

Yuan bears cap rallies

"Many people still believe that the (yuan's) depreciation trend hasn't come to an end," said Li Liuyang, a ...

Yuan bears are turning rallies in the Chinese currency into increasingly short-lived affairs.

Market Indices

Updated: September 6, 2016 - 4:35PM

Updated: September 6, 2016 - 6:08PM

Updated: September 7, 2016 - 12:10AM

Advances

Price

185.00

Percentage up/down

39.11% rise
Declines

Price

227.00

Percentage up/down

47.99% fall
Unchanged

Price

61.00

Percentage up/down

12.90% steady

Last updated: Sep 6, 2016 - 6:50PM

Markets Live: ASX slips as RBA holds

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Shares ease and the Aussie dollar firms as RBA holds rates held steady.

"My base case is that they will extend QE by six months," said Claus Vistesen, chief euro-zone economist at Pantheon ...

Draghi nears third round of QE

If at first you don't succeed, extend, and then extend again.

Woodside Petroleum has expressed an interest in acquiring more local assets.

Woodside buys Australian as plan to buy abroad clouded

With a move into Senegal under a cloud, Woodside has taken a safer option with its latest expansion by acquiring acreage off Western Australia.

Shares in Estia closed 11.8 per cent down to $2.78, Regis was down 16.7 per cent to $3.70 and Japara lost 14.7 per cent ...

ASX rallies despite horror day for aged care stocks

A belated spring bounce pushed the ASX higher, despite a string of analyst downgrades that saw investors flee aged care stocks.

Australia's Department of Health on Friday outlined several payments that would not be permissible under the aged care ...

Aged care stocks plunge on fee change

Shares in the three largest ASX-listed aged care operators have slumped following new guidelines by the federal government for charging certain service fees from residential aged care customers.

Yuan bears cap rallies

Yuan bears are turning rallies in the Chinese currency into increasingly short-lived affairs.

Wholesale Interbank Rates
Currencies	Buys ($AU1)	Sells ($AU1)	$ Mvmt	% Mvmt
AUD/USD	0.7629	0.7625	0.0047rise	0.62% rise
AUD/EUR	0.6835	0.683	0.0032rise	0.47% rise
Updated: September 6, 2016 - 11:55PM

Volatility S&P;/ASX 200 VIX

Price: 13.21

Change in: -0.2130fall
Percentage up/down: (-1.59%) fall

Today's market compared to previous close

Turnover
Sector	Turnover ($AU)	Volume	Trades
Market total	3,855,634,802	2,033,640,501	898,410
Industrial	3,167,729,814	756,070,018	751,444
Mining	677,341,889	1,277,289,691	143,835

Last updated: September 6, 2016 - 5:55PM

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. U.S. stocks ...

Code	Name	New Highs	Last Week	Last Month
DXB	DIMERIX LTD	0.015rise	0.012	0.015
NCR	NUCOAL RESOURCES LTD	0.005rise	0.004	0.004
COY	COPPERMOLY LIMITED	0.012rise	0.011	0.011
BOL	BOOM LOGISTICS	0.125rise	0.115	0.125
S32	SOUTH32 LIMITED	2.110rise	2.020	2.110
OZG	OZGROWTH LIMITED	0.160rise	0.155	0.160
NVL	NATIONAL VETERINARY	1.795rise	1.750	1.740
FBU	FLETCHER BUILDING	10.410rise	10.310	10.310
AVN	AVENTUS RETAIL FUND	2.550rise	2.540	2.540
AYG	AXXIS TECHNOLOGY GRP	0.001rise	0.001	0.001
Updated: September 6, 2016 - 6:50PM

Code	Name	New Lows	Last Week	Last Month
MEM	MEMPHASYS LTD	0.005fall	0.006	0.005
LSR	LODESTAR MINERALS	0.010fall	0.011	0.011
RUM	RUM JUNGLE RES	0.020fall	0.021	0.021
LAA	LATAM AUTOS LTD	0.200fall	0.205	0.200
LKO	LAKES OIL NL	0.001fall	0.001	0.001
SDL	SUNDANCE RESOURCES	0.002fall	0.002	0.002
URF	US MASTERS RES FUND	1.920fall	1.920	1.920
WCN	WHITE CLIFF MIN LTD	0.006fall	0.006	0.006
YBR	YELLOW BRICK ROAD	0.175fall	0.175	0.175
MRV	MORETON RESOURCES	0.003fall	0.003	0.003
Updated: September 6, 2016 - 5:30PM

Company Announcements
Code	Time	Announcement
ZOR	06 Sep 16	End of Day
FRX	06 Sep 16	Appendix 3B
TTW	06 Sep 16	Annual Financial Statements - 30 June 2016
NST	06 Sep 16	Initial Director's Interest Notice (x2)
S2R	06 Sep 16	Corporate Governance Statement September 2016
MUM	06 Sep 16	Replacement Prospectus
ORN	06 Sep 16	Independent Investment Research Issue Research Report
STW	06 Sep 16	Daily Fund Update
SLF	06 Sep 16	Daily Fund Update
SFY	06 Sep 16	Daily Fund Update

Dividend Calendar
Code	Date Payable	Div Amount
CSV	07 Sep 2016	0.0500
DMP	07 Sep 2016	0.3880
ANN	08 Sep 2016	0.3097
CMI	08 Sep 2016	0.0300
WIG	09 Sep 2016	0.0500
REF	09 Sep 2016	0.0100
SNZ	09 Sep 2016	0.0212
JBH	09 Sep 2016	0.3700
FSF	09 Sep 2016	0.0817
HFA	09 Sep 2016	0.0917

SWINGS_&_ROUNDABOUTS , ELK

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