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Morning market update 29 July, 2016

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Publish date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016, 08:38 AM
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The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street edged upwards as investors looked beyond disappointing earnings from Ford and bought shares in Apple.

The SPI is up six points at 5,523.

Locally, in economic news, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release June quarter producer price indexes

In equities news, Origin Energy are Resmed are slated to give fourth-quarter reports while Vodafone Hutchison releases half-year results.

  • Key Numbers
  • The SPI is up six points at 5,523
  • AUD trading at 75.02 US cents
  • On Wall St, Dow flat, S&P 500 +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.3%
  • In New York, BHP -0.6%, Rio flat
  • In Europe, Stoxx 50 -1.1%, FTSE -0.4%, CAC -0.6%, DAX -0.4%
  • Spot gold -0.3% to $US1335.50 an ounce
  • Brent crude -1.4% to $US42.88 a barrel
  • Iron ore +3.5% to $US60.70 a tonne

What’s on today

Australia private sector credit, NZ building permits June, ANZ biz confidence July

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