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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... gave no clear direction on the economy, and as investors awaited a key speech by Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 21.68 points (0.17 per cent) to 13,102.99. The broad-based S&P 500 slipped 1.14 (0.08 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... maker was awarded $US1.05 billion ($A1.01 billion) in damages for patent infringement in a US court victory over Samsung on Friday, in one of the biggest patent cases in decade. LONDON - European stock markets moved higher despite a key German business ...

ANZ CEO sells shares to fund debt, tax

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... Smith has sold $10.8 million worth of shares in the bank. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Friday, ANZ said that Smith sold the shares "to fund a forthcoming income tax payment and to repay debt." The share options were part ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... stock was down three cents at $1.315. The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,672.80 per fine ounce, up $US8.55 from Friday's local close of $US1,664.25 per ounce. National turnover was 261 million securities worth $528.2 million, with 384 stocks up ...

Cost reductions dampen IRESS result

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... remainder of 2012, Walsh expects to post a fall in group profit of below 10% for the year. News of the profit update last Friday saw IRESS shares shed 11Ac or 1.53% to $7.09. Despite current head winds, Walsh has a more bullish medium and long-term growth ...

100% world recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... fallen from a high of 26.66 on the 1st of June this year to a 62-month low of 13.7 this month. It settled at 15.2 last Friday - a reading that's still consistent with no or very little fear. Still, others warned that it's a sign of complacence in the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... to post full year results, while Caltex Australia is slated to announce first half results. In Australia, the market on Friday closed lower, and finishing down for the week and ending a run of five weeks of gains. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... with blue-chip stocks Boeing and Hewlett-Packard helping give the market its worst day so far this month. At 0809 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was down 26 points at 4,342. In economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... trading ex-dividend. "The market's pretty square when you consider that to be the fact," Mr Peacock said. On Wall street on Friday, the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its highest level since the last days of 2007 as Apple shares hit a ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... points. Milan fell 1.01 per cent and Madrid dropped 1.21 per cent. The euro climbed to $US1.2346 from $US1.2330 late on Friday in New York, after having spent much of the day down against the greenback. HONG KONG - Asian markets edged lower in subdued ...