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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
Australian stocks opened flat following a lacklustre day on European markets and Wall Street closed for the July 4 public holiday. At 1020 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.9 points, or 0.05 per cent, at 4,170.3, while the ...

Waiting on the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... waiting stops here and we can proceed on our merry (or gloomy?) way. But it doesn't! Soon after, we'll be waiting for Wall Street to come back from their Independence Day holiday to see their reaction to these decisions. And then we wait some more. Wait ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket has opened more than three quarters of a per cent higher, following strong leads on Wall Street. At 1017 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 31.6 points, or 0.77 per cent, at 4,158.8, while the broader ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... their sluggish economies after a stream of negative data. Regional bourses shrugged off a lacklustre performance on Wall Street, with investors banking on the Federal Reserve taking stimulus measures after the release of weak US manufacturing data and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... decision day. The market is pretty much around where we thought it would around which is idling around the flatline." Wall Street finished mixed after news that US manufacturing contracted for the first time in almost three years in June, raising concerns ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher despite a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight after news that manufacturing contracted for the first time in almost three years, raising concerns the United States has joined a global industrial ...

Can this latest kick of the can can?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... reaction to Europe's kinder surprise on the last day of the last trading week of the last month of the second quarter. Wall Street gained big time - the Dow ended 2.2% up, the S&P 500 closed 2.5% higher and the Nasdaq surged by 3.0% after the European ...

Good one day, no good the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... Why, oh, why has it come to this? That market action dictates what the rationale would be? Not the other way around? Wall Street dipped overnight. Why? There must be some reason beyond portfolio rebalancing or window dressing or speculators taking their ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... $US1.2435 from late Wednesday's $US1.2467 in New York. HONG KONG - Asian markets closed mixed as a positive lead from Wall Street was offset by low expectations of concrete action at a key EU summit to resolve the spiralling eurozone crisis. The euro ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... contracts traded. The Australian market opened firmer, as local investors took their cues from a positive night of Wall Street. The consumer discretionary sector was the best-performing sector at noon, having risen 0.77 per cent, according to IRESS data ...