19 June 2013 - Wall Street continued to show that it was less afraid of quantitative easing (QE) tapering than we are with the Dow up 138.38 points or 0.91 per cent to 15,318.23 and the S&P 500 12.77 points or 0.78 per cent higher to 1651.81. So what is going on? Yesterday, on a day when our market should have gone up, the Reserve Bank (RBA) left the door open on further rate cuts and inferred it would like a lower dollar. This sent the stock market down, but bargain hunters dived into the banks, and so... read more ›
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