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Stephen Letts

Online Finance Writer at ABC News (Australia)

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  • 1 week ago | abc.net.au | Stephen Letts

    Israel's attack on Iran may have come as a surprise, but the response from global markets was predictable. Risky assets such as equities were sold, safe havens such as gold and the US dollar were bought. Oil spiked on fears an escalating conflict would disrupt supplies from the Middle East. The S&P 500 swung from a modest gain to a 1.1% loss as the missiles were fired. The Nasdaq fell 1.3%.

  • 2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Stephen Letts

    Good morning and welcome to another (slightly delayed start to the) week on the ABC markets and finance blog. Stephen Letts from ABC business team limbering up for a blow-by-blow coverage of the day's events, where every post is hopefully a winner, but none should be construed as financial advice.

  • 3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Stephen Letts

    Good morning and welcome to another week on the ABC markets and finance blog. Stephen Letts from ABC business team limbering up for a blow-by-blow coverage of the day's events, where every post is hopefully a winner, but none should be construed as financial advice. In short, it looks like a marginally positive start to the week after Wall Street ended a volatile Friday session going nowhere. Futures trading points to the ASX gaining 0.1% on opening.

  • 1 month ago | abc.net.au | Stephen Letts

    Good morning and welcome to another week on the ABC markets and finance blog. Stephen Letts from ABC business team limbering up for a blow-by-blow coverage of the day's events, where every post is hopefully a winner, but none should be construed as financial advice. In short, it looks like a negative start to the week after Wall Street slumped on Friday when US President Donald Trump started cranking out new tariff threats against Europe and Apple.

  • 1 month ago | flipboard.com | Stephen Letts

    8 hours agoLet me start with a prediction: the S&P 500 will gain about 5% this year—not great, but not bad, either. This isn’t really a Nostradamus-level call: I’m simply annualizing the gain the market has posted so far in 2025, as of this writing. We can think of this year as the middle stage of the business …

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16 Sep 23

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12 Aug 23

Terrific piece about one of the great talents of OzMusic. Vale Ron S. Peno https://t.co/8yGA9cXND4

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27 Jul 23

RT @LettersOfNote: RIP https://t.co/vMeTmtaW6V