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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... December. The Australian share market closed sharply lower yesterday, falling for its eighth session in a row after United States markets were pummelled by more fallout from the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and fears of a recession. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... abuses, a core tenet of SRI investing, as a reason not to look at BRIC markets. "The world's largest economy, the United States, has a number of glaring failures on the human rights front - the death sentence, Guantanamo and its huge prison population ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... market optimism today, Credit Suisse raised US stocks to "overweight" for the first time this decade, saying the United States has historically outperformed when leading economic indicators fall "because the speed of macro and corporate policy response ...

Blair joins JPMorgan Chase

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
... years, he was praised for his diplomatic involvements in the Middle East process but criticised for joining the United States-led war against Iraq. JPMorgan Chase operates in more than 50 countries with assets of $1.67 trillion.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower today after the United States and other world markets -- apart from Germany -- suffered falls on Friday. In London on Friday, base metal prices generally were higher. At 0824 AEDT on the Sydney Futures ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... similarly with the gold price which was off quite substantially." Mr Wacher said positive retail sales data in the United States helped to buoy stocks on Wall Street. "The US retail sales result was pretty strong so that's probably given a bit of impetus ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... closed weaker on Wednesday after a smaller than expected interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve helped push United States markets sharply lower. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 65.2 points lower at 6615.2, and the All Ordinaries was down 62.7 ...

Markets not governments set interest rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... years ago. "Among other things, they have helped lower the cost of capital for borrowers around the world. In the United States, we [McKinsey] estimate, long-term interest rates are as much as 0.75 of a percentage point lower thanks to purchases of US ...

Perfect storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... policy can have far-reaching effects on countries that denominate trade in dollars, even if direct trade with the United States or the euro area is negligible," said an IMF report from the conference when describing a paper by Linda Goldberg and Cedric ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower with stock index futures in the red, however, the United States is pointing the way higher after Citigroup Inc got a $US7.5 billion ($A8.6 billion) capital injection from Abu Dhabi, adding to confidence ...