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Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... one of desperation to 'there's still hope.' That feeling of hope was underlined by the sharp rebound on Wall Street overnight. The S&P 500 index jumped by 4.7%, the Dow ended 3.9% higher and the Nasdaq gained 5.3%. The Fed changed the almost permanent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... Australian stocks are looking at a brighter day today, after Wall Street staged a stunning turnaround in late trade overnight. Oil fell again, but metals generally were higher. At 0710 AEST on the ASX 24 on Monday, the September share price index futures ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
Australian stocks were dumped at the start of trade on Tuesday, as the wave of selling during overnight offshore trading swept onto local shores. At 1027 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 151.6 points, or 3.80 per cent, at 3,834.5 points ...

Stocks in freefall on recession fears, banks cut mortgage rates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... than 2008, with authorities hamstrung by monetary policies too loose to react effectively, experts said. On Wall Street overnight the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 634.76 points or 5.55% to 10,809.80 while the S&P/500 Index fell 79.92 points or 6.66% ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... to follow Wall Street into another day of steep declines, after New York indices all plunged by around six per cent overnight. At 0721 AEST on the ASX 24, the September share price index futures contract was 153 points lower at 3,800. In economics news ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... US economy was sliding towards recession, while Europe's debt problems were intensifying. Markets worldwide plunged overnight on renewed concerns about fiscal weakness in Italy and Spain and the eurozone's ability to contain more crisis, after the two ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Australian stocks plunged at the open after world markets fell sharply overnight and experts say more grief is to come. At time of writing, the All Ordinaries Index was down 173 points or 3.97% to 4179.9 while the S&P ASX 200 had given up 156.5 points ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... Omaha. " Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." The jump in the VIX "fear" index overnight to 35.4 certainly shows that the market is fearful - it was the biggest one-day spike since February 2007. Again history is ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
The Australian dollar dropped more than two US cents overnight as fears rise over the US economy and the European sovereign debt crisis deepens. US stocks also fell, down more than four per cent and European stocks fell over three per cent At 0700 (AEST) ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... chief market strategist Michael McCarthy said local trade was following the trend in the US, where Wall Street rebounded overnight after heavy selling earlier in the week. US stocks closed flat to higher in overnight trade, as the Dow Jones Industrial ...