Markets Live: Santa's last chance
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Late profit-taking in the miners has pushed shares lower in a shortened pre-Christmas session, as Tatts rejects a competing offer from a Macquarie-led consortium.
Late profit-taking in the miners has pushed shares lower in a shortened pre-Christmas session, as Tatts rejects a competing offer from a Macquarie-led consortium.
Veteran fundie Geoff Wilson has warned shares in Hunter Hall Global Value are primed to fall now that the fund has lost its mantle as an ethical fund.
After a year of drama and upsets, investors shouldn't be expecting a more sedate pace in 2017.
China's new rules on cash transactions and overseas transfers of yuan currency are not forms of capital controls, the state news agency Xinhua said, citing a central bank economist.
The lack of easy, costless answers suggests that, come next January, the world will remain in much the same place it is now - a muddle.
The election of Donald Trump as the president of the US caught not just the US cognoscenti offguard, but the reaction of financial markets sowed the seeds for the dramatic exit of Peter Hall from the funds management business he started two decades ago.
Has Wall Street's Trump-inspired optimism gone too far?
It has been the single most fraught issue in retailing over the past two decades – shopper docket fuel discounts.
Late profit-taking in the miners has pushed shares lower in a shortened pre-Christmas session, as Tatts rejects a competing offer from a Macquarie-led consortium.
US stocks completed the fourth annual gain since 2011 on the longest losing streak since the November 8 election.
Each December, China's leaders meet to lay out their economic agenda for the next year. China-watchers pore over every word.
Gold prices eased on Friday, ending a year in which bullion gained more than 8 per cent, snapping three years of declines.
Brent oil, the global benchmark, is headed for its first annual advance in four years on hopes for more
China's new rules on cash transactions and overseas transfers of yuan currency are not forms of capital controls, the state news agency Xinhua said, citing a central bank economist.
Currencies | Buys ($AU1) | Sells ($AU1) | $ Mvmt | % Mvmt |
---|---|---|---|---|
AUD/USD | 0.7182 | 0.7177 | -0.0038fall | -0.53% fall |
AUD/EUR | 0.6861 | 0.6854 | 0.0012rise | 0.18% rise |
Updated: January 3, 2017 - 12:39AM |
Sector | Turnover ($AU) | Volume | Trades |
---|---|---|---|
Market total | 2,228,349,699 | 946,939,244 | 477,548 |
Industrial | 1,656,421,523 | 322,283,644 | 368,003 |
Mining | 551,256,242 | 624,475,457 | 106,915 |
David Samra, awarded for his stock-picking during and after the 2008 financial crisis, says now's the time for a steady hand and no emotion.
The Sydney software company just released its first quarterly earnings report since listing on the Nasdaq late last year.
Markets are in a well-oiled "death spiral," analysts at Citigroup say.
Code | Name | New Highs | Last Week | Last Month |
---|---|---|---|---|
AGL | AGL ENERGY LIMITED. | 22.280rise | 22.280 | 22.280 |
AML | AEON METALS LTD. | 0.200rise | 0.200 | 0.200 |
APL | ANTIPODES GLOBAL INV | 1.100rise | 1.100 | 1.100 |
ARA | ARIADNE AUSTRALIA | 0.585rise | 0.585 | 0.585 |
AWC | ALUMINA LIMITED | 1.840rise | 1.840 | 1.840 |
BKY | BERKELEY ENERGIA LTD | 0.910rise | 0.910 | 0.910 |
BSA | BSA LIMITED | 0.380rise | 0.380 | 0.380 |
CCE | CARNEGIE CLN ENERGY | 0.062rise | 0.062 | 0.062 |
CGC | COSTA GROUP HOLDINGS | 3.480rise | 3.480 | 3.480 |
CLA | CELSIUS RESOURCE LTD | 0.021rise | 0.021 | 0.021 |
Updated: December 30, 2016 - 2:30PM |
Code | Name | New Lows | Last Week | Last Month |
---|---|---|---|---|
AB1 | ANIMOCA BRANDS CORP | 0.058fall | 0.058 | 0.058 |
AQS | AQUIS ENT LTD | 0.050fall | 0.050 | 0.050 |
AQX | ALICE QUEEN LTD | 0.025fall | 0.025 | 0.025 |
AZS | AZURE MINERALS | 0.020fall | 0.020 | 0.020 |
BFC | BESTON GLOBAL LTD | 0.315fall | 0.315 | 0.315 |
CAD | CAENEUS MINERALS | 0.001fall | 0.001 | 0.001 |
CFO | CFOAM LIMITED | 0.450fall | 0.450 | 0.450 |
CGO | CPT GLOBAL LIMITED | 0.150fall | 0.150 | 0.150 |
CMY | CAPITAL MINING | 0.001fall | 0.001 | 0.001 |
COO | CORUM GROUP LIMITED | 0.065fall | 0.065 | 0.065 |
Updated: December 30, 2016 - 2:30PM |
Company | Security Code | Float date | Issue $ |
---|---|---|---|
Automotive Solutions Group Ltd | 4WD | 16/12/2016 | 1.00 |
Ardea Resources Ltd | ARL | 09/01/2017 | 0.20 |
Axsesstoday Ltd | AXL | 21/12/2016 | 1.00 |
Blockchain Global Ltd | BCG | 0.20 | |
Blackstone Minerals Ltd | BSX | 20/12/2016 | 0.20 |
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