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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... reasons to get stuck into the market. So it probably suggests we will drift over the day and might lose a little bit of ground on a pretty light volume." More than $33 billion was wiped from the value of the Australian share market on Thursday on renewed ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... points with 12,650 contracts traded. RBS Morgans director of equities Bill Chatterton said the Australian market would lose ground throughout the day. "We're in for a softer day," Mr Chatterton said. "It will be down, I expect, over one per cent, maybe ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... yapping at doesn't have a great deal of substance," Mr Heffernan said. After a flat opening, major materials stocks gained ground in morning trade. At 1203 AEST, BHP Billiton was up 26 cents to $44.17, Rio Tinto had added 44 cents to $80.69 and Fortescue ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... territory half an hour before the close of trading. In London, the miners and oil majors provided support as they made some ground after losses earlier in the week. Anglo-American put on 2.2 per cent while Shell added 0.94 per cent. Investors remain ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... cents, or 1.61 per cent, at $46.36, while Rio Tinto had added $1.30, or 1.65 per cent, to $80.02. Gold stocks also gained ground, after gold hit a three-week high in overnight trade, boosted by concern over the debt crisis in eurozone countries and as ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... posted similar gains but Madrid and Milan both managed gains of around one per cent. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets lost ground despite strong performances from automakers in Japan after a report that quake-hit production could return to normal earlier ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... cent. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions. LONDON - European stock markets closed firmer, recovering some ground lost the previous day as investors welcomed modestly positive US housing and European confidence data. Dealers said the slight ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... Monday, the Australian share market ended the day deeply in the red at a two-month low as finance stocks lost the most ground amid widespread selling. When markets settled, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 89.2 points or 1.88 per cent at 4,643 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Australian shares continued to fall from a sharply lower open on Monday, with banks stocks losing the most ground amid widespread selling. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 73.2 points, or 1.55 per cent, at 4,659 points, while the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... morning and I think a big chunk of that is because Westpac went ex-dividend." Telstra was one of the few stocks not to lose ground in early morning trade, he said. Telstra shares remained flat at $2.98. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 100.17 ...