The Australian dollar has surged to a two-month, continuing to defy efforts by the Reserve Bank to talk it down. At 0630 AEDT on Tuesday, the local unit was trading at 72.36 US cents, after soaring to 72.47 US cents at one point, up from 71.74 cents on Monday. The $A has rebounded about 6 […]
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Not much has really happened in the Australian markets in the last week, despite news on oil. The Australian dollar is roughly where it was this time last week, and the ASX200 has rallied a little but still remains well and truly under 5000. Oil prices rose sharply this week after Russia and Saudi Arabia,
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The Reserve Bank has urged investors not to be overly pessimistic about global market volatility and the uncertain economic outlook. Since the start of 2016, equity, commodity and credit markets have been fluctuating and brent crude oil prices have fallen to their lowest level in more than a decade. RBA assistant governor Malcolm Edey has
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The unemployment rate has jumped to six per cent, not the sort of news Malcolm Turnbull’s new-look frontbench would have been hoping for. As the prime minister’s new team was sworn in by the governor-general, new figures also showed the number of people in employment fell by 7900 in January, and would have been worse
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