Iron Ore

Wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.

Wall Street has the excuses lined up ahead of tonight’s jobs report. Dow up 61. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDST)

More weak US data rolled in last night to be quickly dismissed. Dow down 35. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDST)

Tensions in the Ukraine eased last night as Russia’s military exercises concluded. Dow up 227. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDST)

There’s a new risk hovering over the iron ore price profile but analysts are not too worried at this stage.

Markets across the world have fallen on the crisis in the Ukraine. Dow down 153. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDST)

Wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.

Janet Yellen provided the soothing words Wall Street needed to break on through last night. Dow up 74. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDST)

Strong housing data sent Wall Street into total weather confusion last night as the S&P again failed to establish a new closing high. Dow up 18. (Accessible only for subscribers before 10:15 AEDST)

Brokers consider the impact of Indonesia’s ban on the nickel price. Credit Suisse considers which of the big two Oz miners will return capital while Merrills looks at Oz gold stocks likely to raise capital.