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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... The Australian share market is expected to open lower following declines in US stocks overnight as concerns about a US recession escalated. In London, base metal prices were weaker. At 0713 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... cut its rating of three big credit card providers, including American Express, citing expectations of a consumer-led recession. The downgrades, combined with a report showing slower-than-expected factory orders, cast doubt over market optimism that last ...

World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... IMF expects US growth to slow to 1.5 percent this year, down from 2.2 percent last year, but to stay clearly above the recession red zone. Growth in western Europe is also slowing, driven down by confidence indicators which are generally deteriorating. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... the overall market even as shrinking payrolls in January provided the clearest sign yet that the economy is close to recession. The Dow Jones industrial average finished up 92.83 points, or 0.73 per cent, to 12,743.19. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... might be stagflation or even agflation, leading economists told today's Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. "There is a recession in US housing and it will get worse and even feel like [an overall] recession," said Dr Don Stammer, economist and now chairman ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... slashed a key interest rate by a half-percentage point to help keep the world's largest economy from tipping into a recession but then went lower as Base metal prices prices in London also dipped, which could weigh on the big miners today. At 0825 AEDT ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... Wednesday, a week after they slashed rates by three-quarters of a percentage point in an emergency step to forestall a recession. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 104.22 points, or 0.84 per cent, at 12,488.11 and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ...

Jumping volatility not yet swaying sentiment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... The good sentiment news may however lead to mixed interpretations about views of possibly, or possibly not, looming US recession as the intense focus upon it may lead to concern if it doesn't eventuate or uncertainty about how and who has factored it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... points to 2,360.92. LONDON - UK stocks gained 4.8 per cent higher on hopes the US government would be able to prevent a recession in the world's biggest economy. The FTSE 100 added 266.5 points to 5,875.8 points FRANKFURT - The DAX index rose 381.86 ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... investors remained cautious about news coming from local companies, such as Centro, MFS and Allco, and as fears of a looming recession in the US persisted. "People are trying to work out whether we're going for a short shallow recession or a long deep ...