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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... or 1.92 per cent, to 1,066.63. LONDON - European stock markets made modest gains on Thursday, powered by positive US employment data and upbeat comments from the European Central Bank on eurozone growth prospects. In London, the FTSE 100 index rose 17.75 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... 2,018.78. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed higher in choppy trade on Friday, with investors tested by a mixed US employment report after encouraging words from the heads of the IMF and European Central Bank. The gains were welcome after a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher on Monday, boosted by better than expected US employment data that added to signs that the world's largest economy is pulling out of recession. Silver and copper prices were higher, while gold and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... European stock markets halted a three-day losing streak and finished in positive territory on better-than-expected US employment data. In London, the FTSE 100 index gained 18.43 points, or 0.45 per cent, to close at 4,158.66. FRANKFURT - The Dax added ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... LONDON - Leading European stock exchanges showed few signs of life in sluggish trade still affected by disappointing US employment figures from the previous day. The London FTSE 100 index edged up 2.01 points or 0.05 per cent to end the week at 4,236.28 ...

De-stressing the stress test

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... decline since last October and much, much better than market expectations for a 645,000 reduction. The official US employment report will be released on Friday (US time). Markets expect the report to show non-farm jobs shrank by another 603,000 in April. ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... & Poor's revised its outlook on its long-term credit rating to negative from stable. Subject to spin. Tomorrow's US employment report may again rattle investors' nerves. The betting is that another 540,000 Americans received pink slips in January. Certainly ...

Global recession coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... September 2001. Likewise, continuing claims, at 3.5 million, are now the highest since October 2003. The official US employment report will be released on 3 October and, given these statistics, the numbers would not be good. US capital investment is ...

More Fed pump-priming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... Street's overnight performance is anything to go by. Wall Street closed higher overnight as an unexpectedly strong US employment report and an announcement by the US Federal Reserve of new liquidity provisions offset a rebound in the price of crude oil. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... in industrial shares, technology stocks like Google, and energy stocks like Schlumberger, as suprisingly upbeat US employment figures were released and the oil price lifted by two per cent. The early state of the market threatened a further drop on the ...