MARKET CLOSE: NZ stocks rise, on Xero’s NYSE listing plans, Telecom climbs to 2008 highs
Thursday 24th July 2014
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New Zealand shares rose, paced by Xero after the cloud-based accounting software firm said it is mulling a New York listing where shares in Facebook and Apple have rebounded. Telecom Corp rose to the highest since it spun out Chorus, as […]
* US stock markets surged on the open and held on to those gains through to the close, as once again geopolitics took a back seat to the news of better US corporate earnings.* European stock markets rebounded overnight, snapping a three session losing streak, as traders set aside their concerns over the downed Malaysian flight and the Ukraine and […]
When Australian activists conducted a spoof solar energy installation assessment for their climate change-doubting Prime Minister Tony Abbot’s residence (“The Lodge”) last month, the intent may have been satirical, but the software they used is anything but. In fact, virtually simulating solar energy installations from afar has quietly become a commonplace in the solar industry, which is rapidly embracing big […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS.To learn more click hereSelling pressure could hit the AUD/USD when the Forex pair begins trading on Monday. Over the week-end, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens reiterated his belief of an overvalued Australian dollar when he said that investors may be underestimating the risk of a “material decline”.In […]
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Australian shares are trading weaker Tuesday morning, though off their early lows, with the S&P/ASX 200 /quotes/zigman/1653884/delayed AU:XJO +0.41% showing a loss of 0.2%. A retreat for stocks across Europe and the U.S. is weighing on the majority of the financials, with Australia & New Zealand Banking Group /quotes/zigman/180795/delayed AU:ANZ +0.57% /quotes/zigman/180794/delayed/quotes/nls/anewf ANEWF -0.28% and Macquarie […]
Bitcoin Technical Analysis 1st JulyBy Forexminute – Yes Option | Bitcoin | Jul 1, 2014 12:08PM BSTBitcoin traders finally got the price breakout they have been waiting for, as the USMS auction was considered a success and drove the price up nearly 7% over the course of yesterday’s trading to reach the 640 level having been stuck in the […]
In the era of big data, the battle for privacy has already been fought and lost – personal data is routinely collected and traded in the new economy and there are few effective controls over how it is used or secured. Data researchers and analysts now say that it’s time for legislation to reclaim some of that privacy and […]
The report, seen by the Financial Times, identifies $29.1tn in market investments, including gold, held by 400 public sector institutions in 162 countries.
China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has become “the world’s largest public sector holder of equities”, according to officials quoted by Omfif. “In a new development, it appears that PBoC itself has been directly buying minority equity […]
Australian multi-service bitcoin company digitalBTC will make history today as the first cryptocurrency-focused company to trade on a major mainstream stock exchange.DigitalBTC, which began as a mining operation but also engages in bitcoin trading and is developing retail and consumer applications, debuted on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) this morning as Digital CC Limited (trading as digitalBTC; ASX code: DCC).The […]
Few workplaces might seem more unpredictable in their workload than the emergency department of a major hospital. But even the random circumstances that send patients to the ER start to yield patterns when subjected to new methods of data analysis.For Dr James Lind, director of access and patient flow at Gold Coast Health, clever analysis of admission records by the […]
