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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... 3.41 per cent, at 5842.9, while the broader All Ordinaries lifted 185.3 points, or 3.25 per cent, to 5882.3. NEW YORK - US stocks rose on Friday, capping Wall Street's best week in almost five years, after Microsoft Corp's $US44.6 billion ($A49.86 billion) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... 0.56 per cent, to 5,650.3 and the broader All Ordinaries gained 31.7 points, or 0.56 per cent, to 5,697. NEW YORK - US stocks rose overnight after executives of MBIA Inc, the world's largest bond insurer, offered reassurances about the company's outlook ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... it were. "Hopefully we'll get things into perspective soon and look to our leading stocks and be happy buying them." US stocks fell on Wednesday, led by financial shares, on a media report that America's two biggest bond insurers would lose their top ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower after US stocks turned negative as investors worried about ratings agencies cutting the triple-A rating on the two companies, which together insure more than $US1 trillion in bonds. Wall Street initially ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... or 2.45 per cent, to 5,716.5 and the All Ordinaries had fallen 131.8 points, or 2.24 per cent, to 5,754.5. NEW YORK- US stocks rose on Tuesday as expectations of another Federal Reserve interest rate cut to shore up the economy fueled a further recovery ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... points, or 5.02 per cent, to 5,860.3 and the All Ordinaries gained 280.5 points, or five per cent, to 5,886.3. NEW YORK - US stocks rallied on Monday as investors snapped up shares of manufacturers and downtrodden banks after more weak housing data bolstered ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... had formed a joint venture with the world's largest copper producer, CODELCO, to explore for the red metal in Chile. US stocks rose 0.9 per cent after the government said 117 million US families would receive a tax rebate cheque in a move designed to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... points, or 3.11 per cent, to 5,580.4 and the All Ordinaries lifted 160.2 points, or 2.94 per cent, to 5,605.8. NEW YORK - US stocks rose 0.9 per cent after the government said 117 million US families would recieve a tax rebate check in a move designed ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... BHP Billiton climbed 38 cents, or 1.12 per cent, to $34.27 and Rio Tinto found $3.98, or 3.75 per cent, to $109.99. US stocks recovered from a poor start overnight to surge over two per cent as investors bought financial stocks on rumours that regulators ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... 4.35 per cent, to 5412.3, and the broader All Ordinaries jumped 223.6 points, or 4.28 per cent, to 5445.6. NEW YORK - US stocks surged over two per cent as investors bought financial stocks on rumours that capital would be injected into bond insurers ...