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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
Stocks listed on the Australian Securities Exchange could be in for a shellacking today, led down by the financial and resources sectors, after the US House of Representatives rejected a $US700 billion rescue package this morning. At 0809 AEST, the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... indicators were mixed. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 3.83 points, or 0.32 per cent to 1,213.01, while the technology-heavy NASDAQ fell 3.23 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 2,183.34.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... indicators were mixed. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 3.83 points, or 0.32 per cent to 1,213.01, while the technology-heavy NASDAQ fell 3.23 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 2,183.34. LONDON - Major European stock exchanges fell in Friday trading ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... $102.18. In the US overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 29 points, or 0.27 per cent, at 10,825.17. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite gained 2.35 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 2,155.68 and the broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index lost ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... indices. "It's a knee jerk reaction to the massive rise in US shares overnight," Mr Morrow said. "It smells of some very, very heavy short-covering, especially in the finance sector, specifically in Macquarie Group. "There's obviously some substantial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... 113.2 points, or 2.25 per cent, to 4,912.40 points, breaching key technical support at 5,000 points as investors tracked heavy losses on Wall Street of some 300 points. FRANKFURT - The DAX was down 104.19 points, or 1.75 per cent, to 5,860.98 points. ...

AIG Australia insulated from US woes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... the mega insurer being Australia's largest super fund group insurer with major clients including pension fund and platform heavy weights ARIA, REST, GESB and BT. According to the Rainmaker super fund Benchmarking Report analysis of the 2008 group insurance ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... of Employment, Interest, and Money. Keynes postulated that laissez-faire capitalism is inherently unstable and requires heavy state intervention to survive. The welfare state developed. Unemployment insurance, deposit insurance and other forms of automatic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... confidence in a recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 141.51 points, or 1.30 per cent, to 11,059.02. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite climbed 27.99 points, or 1.28 per cent, to 2,207.90 while the broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index added ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2008
The Australian stock exchange was weaker at noon as US financial sector uncertainty continued to affect local banks and insurers. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 108.4 points lower, or by 2.21 per cent, at 4795.4, while the broader All Ordinaries ...