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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street's rocky start ended with a more-than-one-per-cent gain, shrugging off fears that central banks will soon end their stimulus measures. At 0805 AEST on Friday, the June share price index ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... threat of social unrest. Tokyo investors have gone on a buying spree since the BoJ last week unveiled a huge stimulus package aimed at reversing decades of deflation. The yen has lost almost eight per cent since the bank announced its shift in monetary ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... while the euro rose against the US dollar as traders digested Chinese inflation data and the announcement of a stimulus package in Japan. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies added 0.33 per cent to 6,121.58 points while Frankfurt's DAX ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... gains, while the euro rose against the dollar as traders digested Chinese inflation data and the announcement of a stimulus package in Japan. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies added 0.33 per cent to 6,121.58 points while Frankfurt's ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... September, adding to concerns about the economic giant, while enthusiasm waned over the Bank of Japan's economic stimulus package. Shanghai tumbled 2.08 per cent to close at 2,024.84 points - its lowest since February 2009, at the height of the global ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... September, adding to concerns about the economic giant, while enthusiasm waned over the Bank of Japan's economic stimulus package. Shanghai tumbled 2.08 per cent to close at 2,024.84 points - its lowest since February 2009, at the height of the global ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... market analyst Ben Le Brun said investors were trying to make up their minds on what the latest Federal Reserve stimulus package meant for the US. "There might be some slightly disappointed investors and traders as well," Mr Le Brun said. Mr Le Brun ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... and investors digesting weak retail trade data. Reports that China's government may not repeat its massive 2008 stimulus package to boost economic growth also weighed on the market. At 1200 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 38.2 ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... thought his climbdown last month with Congress over the debt ceiling would make him gun-shy, by proposing a jobs stimulus package that is nearly as big as the entire Australian commonwealth annual budget. Adjusted for relative population size, president ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... stand at 2,446.06. Mr Padley said investors anticipated US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke would announce a stimulus package at a global meeting of central bankers on Friday (US time), with large movements in companies released morning announements. ...