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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
The Australian market faces brighter prospects on Thursday, after Wall Street staged a modest rally overnight despite more disappointing data and continuing fears over debt in Europe. At 0643 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
It could have easily been another down day on Wall Street overnight - but it wasn't. The Street's three major equity indices finished above the zero line while we slept, despite more stats giving credence to 'the US is heading for another recession' ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... September share price index futures contract was 79 points lower at 4,316 points, with 17,000 contracts traded. US stocks overnight lost most of their gains for 2011, as poor economic data overshadowed a congressional deal to raise the country's debt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... on Wednesday after the central bank kept the cash rates on hold on Tuesday and the release of weak US economic data overnight. At 0700 (AEST), the Australian dollar was trading at 107.80 US cents, down from 108.90 cents on Tuesday. The Australian dollar ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... percent chance that the U.S. will relapse into another recession" (Bloomberg). Wall Street erased all of its 2011 gains overnight - and then some. Last night's 2.6% tumble takes the S&P 500 index down 0.3% for the entire year as investors doubted whether ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
The Australian share market is expected to decline following falls on Wall Street overnight on scepticism about the deal to resolve the US debt crisis. At 0717 AEST on the ASX 24 on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was down ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... says it will run out of funds, lawmakers in Washington remain short of a compromise debt plan. US stocks ended mixed in overnight trade, as nervous markets awaited a resolution to the debt-limit standoff. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael ...

Complicating the simple

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... "she'll be right mate." The US bond market agrees. Yields of 10-year Treasuries have come down by 4 basis points to 2.95% overnight. Like I said yesterday, if you want to figure out the financial market's pulse on the debt issue, you look to the bond ...

Higher US interest rates possible on downgrade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... Congress to reach agreement on raising the debt ceiling. US markets suffered their worst one-day drop in two months overnight with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling for the fourth straight day, down 198.75 points, or 1.6% to 12,302.55, the Wall ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
The Australian dollar set a new record overnight but drifted lower in the early morning session, on renewed concern about Europe's debt crisis. At 0700 AEST on Thursday, the Australian dollar was trading at 110.23 US cents, down from 110.55 US cents ...