• Australian market expected to open higher 07/08/19

    • August 7, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open higher. The SPI Futures is expected to be up 47 points.   Treasury yields moved a bit higher intraday after China’s central bank signaled it wouldn’t let the yuan fall further, encouraging investors to shift some money back to riskier assets like stocks.   Amazon’s

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  • Australian market expected to open lower 06/08/19

    • August 6, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open lower. SPI Futures is expected down 110 points.       Beijing’s move to devalue its currency escalated the U.S.-China trade fight yet again and raised the potential of another retaliatory round from Washington.       HSBC plans to cut up to 2% of

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  • Australian market expected to open flat 05/08/19

    • August 5, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open flat. In separate statements Friday, the two Federal Reserve officials who opposed Wednesday’s interest-rate cut by the central bank justified their views based on the current state of the economy. Trump’s announcement, through a series of tweets Thursday afternoon, ramped up tensions surrounding the trade

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  • Australian market expected to open lower 02/08/19

    • August 2, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open lower. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open down 15 points. U.S. government-bond prices extended early gains after President Trump said he would impose new tariffs on China. The Federal Trade Commission is examining Facebook Inc.’s acquisitions as part of its antitrust investigation into the

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  • Australian market expected to open lower 01/08/19

    • August 1, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open lower. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open down 29 points.   The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter-percentage point-the first reduction since 2008-in a preemptive strike to cushion the economy from a global slowdown and escalating trade tensions.   Deutsche Bank AG

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  • Australian market expected to open higher 29/07/19

    • July 29, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open higher. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open up 19 points.   The U.S. economy grew at a healthy clip in the second quarter as higher consumer spending offset a decline in business investment, keeping the expansion on track despite trade tensions and cooling global

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  • Australian market expected to open higher 26/07/19

    • July 26, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open lower. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open down 34 points.       Dow posted lower net sales and profit, and the company lowered its guidance for capital expenditures by $500 million, citing global uncertainty.       British Prime Minister Boris Johnson laid

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  • Australian market expected to open flat 25/07/19

    • July 25, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open flat.   Boris Johnson formally became Britain’s prime minister and immediately set about assembling a team of ministers and advisers to prepare an all-out push to get the U.K. out of the European Union by the fall.   Decline in yield on 10-year Treasury inflation-protected

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  • Australian market expected to open higher 24/07/19

    • July 24, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open higher. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open up 33 points.     A U.S. delegation is expected to travel to China for trade talks, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said, marking what would be the first in-person talks since the Group of 20

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  • Australian market expected to open higher 23/07/19

    • July 23, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open higher. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open up 10 points.      The Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce as soon as this week a settlement with Facebook over the company’s privacy practices, according to people familiar with the matter.      The

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  • Australian market expected to open lower 22/07/19

    • July 22, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open lower. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open down 26 points.   The S&P 500 ended the day down 18.50 points, or 0.6%, to 2976.61, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 68.77 points, or 0.3%, to 27154.20.   The 2-year Treasury note yield, sensitive

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  • Australian market expected to open higher 19/07/19

    • July 19, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open higher. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open up 16 points.   Quarterly profit fell 10% at Morgan Stanley, the last of the big U.S. banks to report earnings in a mixed quarter where trading slowed and Main Street banks carried the day.   The

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