14 Quotes by Jamie Spiteri

I think it is a rebound from yesterday. The moves in markets overseas, particularly the U.S., just assisted with some renewed confidence first thing this morning.

I think people are looking to the end of June as a period where probably not much is going to happen domestically, and if anything we will just see prices drift.

We are seeing a carry-over of Friday's trend and that's probably encouraged by a similar sort of direction in the U.S. on Friday evening.

You have News Corp. weaker, you have the banking sector basically steady but with Australia & New Zealand Banking Group pulling back after some strong gains in recent weeks ...outside of that the market is just steady.

Origin has struggled to outperform the sector in comparison to some of the other energy stocks.

The big raw material-type stocks tend to get sold off because the demand picture is less certain.

It's taking into consideration the Rio bid for North, and what benefits lie for other stocks in those related sectors, that's why we're seeing an improvement in BHP and other resource based stocks.

It's been a situation where North's been talked about for quite a while and it could be a catalyst for ongoing momentum in that area.

The big falls are across the resources sector which is a bit of a wake up call for the market: that this part of the market is very susceptible to increased volatility at the moment.