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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... 2002, implying costlier energy and falling home prices deterred spending during the holiday shopping season. All three major US stock indexes ended down more than 2 percent. Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 281.51 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
The Australian share market had lost nearly two per cent by midday today after a broker downgraded a major US institution related to suB-prime mortgage writedowns and lower base metal prices hit resource stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... per cent, at 2,647.85. LONDON - UK stocks rose as higher raw material prices lifted commodity plays and after HSBC and major US banks reassured investors on their exposure to the credit market crunch. The FTSE 100 added 69.7 points to 6,432.1. FRANKFURT ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... rally. The US market has been expecting an interest-rate cut to encourage economic growth later in the year. All the major US indices fell after both the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 Index had hit intra-day trading records. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... report increased concerns the housing slowdown could spread into the broader economy and hurt profits. Lennar Corp, a major US home builder, scrapped its 2007 outlook as it posted a 73.4 per cent slide in quarterly profit a day after government data ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... sharpest drop in a decade. That led to waves of selling on Wall Street and in stock markets around the world. For the three major US stock indices, this week's plunge wiped out their gains for the year. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 120.24 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... Israel-Lebanon conflict, the increase in oil flowing as a result of the partial recovery from the March shutdown of the major US oil field at Prudhoe Bay and the announcement last week by Chevron that the high-tech success of record deep sea drilling ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
The stock market is expected to open lower after a weak lead from Wall Street after all three major US stocks indexes fell more than one per cent. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was DOWN 28 points to 5072 at ...

MacarthurCook sets sail for Singapore

... 5.5 per cent. Dunstan said that prospective investors in the fund will also benefit from MacarthurCook's link up with a major US property fund manager who has signed a contract with the group to become their investment advisor and manager for the Asia ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
... developments on the raft of mergers that are ongoing or near completion in the domestic market. NEW YORK - The three major US stock indexes posted their best gains in a year, driven by a surge in energy shares after oil prices hit a record high and as ...