• 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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  • Australian market expected to open lower 18/07/19

    • July 18, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open lower. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open down 15 points.   U.S. consumers propelled Bank of America’s profit in the latest quarter, though the bank warned it could take a hit from any Federal Reserve rate cuts.   Libra, Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency, is facing

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  • Australian market expected to open lower 17/07/19

    • July 17, 2019

      OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open lower. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open down 13 points. Top Senate lawmakers questioned Facebook’s plans for its own cryptocurrency, with the banking committee’s leading Democrat saying the social-media giant isn’t trustworthy enough to operate its own digital money. The yield on the

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  • Australian market expected to open flat 16/07/19

    • July 16, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open flat. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open down 5 points.     European foreign ministers said the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran can still be saved, despite U.S. threats to further tighten sanctions on Tehran.     Citigroup reported that profit increased 7% and

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  • Australian market expected to open lower 15/07/19

    • July 15, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open lower. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open down 30 points.   The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook over a long-running probe into the tech giant’s privacy missteps   Volkswagen has agreed to invest around

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  • Australian market expected to open lower 12/07/19

    • July 12, 2019

        OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open lower. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open down 26 points.   Optimism around a rate cut helped push the Dow industrials on the last leg of its journey to 27000   In recent trading, the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury

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  • Australian market expected to open flat 11/07/19

    • July 11, 2019

      OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open flat. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open up 5 points.   The S&P 500 briefly crossed the 3,000-point mark for the first time after Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that a rate cut is likely later this month.   Oil prices soared on

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  • Australian market expected to open higher

    • July 10, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open higher. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open up 36 points. U.S. stocks were mixed among strength in tech and worries about global trade. Deutsche Bank AG shares slid a second day as investors and analysts questioned the German lender’s growth projections and management’s grip

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  • Australian market expected to open flat

    • July 9, 2019

    OPENING CALL: The Australian share market is expected to open flat. The SPI200 futures contract expected to open up 1 points. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says expected inflation was at 2.7% over the next one and three years. Deutsche Bank AG was quick to start firing staff from its investment bank on

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