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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... blue-chip stocks fell on Tuesday as investors booked profits following a record reached in the previous session, but bank stocks and home builders gained as investors bet the worst of the credit squeeze may be over. The flow of cash into equities slowed ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... 2,115.01. LONDON - UK's FTSE 100 share index closed at its strongest level in nearly a fortnight, boosted by a rise in bank stocks such as Barclays and HBOS which gained as interest rate hike worries eased following muted US inflation data. The FTSE ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2006
... February disappointed the market. Concern that benchmark interest rates may rise further sent bond yields up, pressuring bank stocks like Citigroup Inc.and JPMorgan Chase & Co. On the corporate front, Google Inc shares rose after it signaled it aims ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2006
... cent, at 2,279.44. LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 index got within sight of a fresh 4-1/2 year high, supported by strong bank stocks, but closed well off the day's best level as oil and tobacco shares fell. The FTSE 100 closed at 5,722.6 points, up 18.2 ...

2006 market conditions will suit value investing: Tyndall

... stocks, while the current bull market is expected to continue and should counter the "overpriced" commodities and bank stocks. "Where the equity market used to give 20 per cent returns, we can now expect it to give us 11 to 12 per cent returns and, as ...

Citigroup, Bank of America post higher profits

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2004
... both banks. "Bankruptcies are down, deposit growth and credit card income is strong, and delinquencies are down." Bank stocks declined on Thursday. In afternoon trading, Citigroup shares fell 63 cents to $43.48, and Bank of America shares fell 82 cents ...

Investment, broking houses put red pencil through bank stocks

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2004
Investment houses were putting the red pencil through banking stocks yesterday as the reverberations of last week\'s National Australia Bank profit downgrade continued to be felt. Since chief executive John Stewart stunned the market last Wednesday ...

Bank stocks plunge after US rate rise

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2004
Bank stocks plunged yesterday after a rate rise in the United States stoked fears the same could follow here and curb the sector's growth. The previous night the US Federal Reserve lifted official interest rates by a quarter percent, the first increase ...

AAP Market Wrap

... Reynolds & Co client adviser Steven Negrine said the banks were "hammered" in early trades. "There's selling in the bank stocks like there's no tomorrow," he said. The ANZ fare the worst, losing 57 cents or more than three per cent to $17.60 as it went ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2004
... decline in United States markets overnight. The Australian share market moved closer to all time highs yesterday as bank stocks surged on the prospect that interest rates would remain lower for longer in the United States. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index ...