Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Australian Market Hits 19-Month High

From SMH

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The Australian sharemarket has kicked off the new year with strong gains, hitting a 19-month high as a last-minute deal ended the US "fiscal cliff" crisis that threatened a recession and roiled world financial markets.

At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 57 points, or 1.2 per cent, at 4705.9, posting its strongest start to a year since 2001.......Read more

2 comments:

  1. I see these posts are also coming up on the Max Keiser page! Good to have an Aussie contributor on there.

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  2. Thanks John. I was wondering if any one was going to notice that :-) Max made me the Australian contributing editor to maxkeiser.com a few weeks ago.

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