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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... concerns that tighter credit was hurting consumer spending. Data showing modest payrolls growth in November helped ease recession fears and showed the job market remains resilient despite the crumbling housing market and tight credit conditions. The ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... country and 224 series in total. The good news is the OECD may not be tipping the Rudd Labor government to lead us into recession, but they are saying Rudd will have to create his own economic luck if he is to repeat the Howard midas touch.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... concerns that tighter credit is hurting consumer spending. Data showing modest payrolls growth in November helped ease recession fears and showed the job market remains resilient despite the crumbling housing market and tight credit conditions. The Dow ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... November 7. HONG KONG - Stocks advanced for a seventh straight session after strong U.S. jobs data eased worries about a recession. The Hang Seng Index closed up 0.73 percent, or 213.47 points, at 29,558.92, a one-month closing high. WELLINGTON - The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... resurgence in technology shares, after a slew of economic reports pointed to strength in the economy, calming fears of a recession. Even so, jitters about the credit crisis lingered. Indices trimmed gains after ratings agency Moody's Investors Service ...

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
... colleague, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher have been quite vocal in reassuring the world there's no chance of a US recession. However, The Economist noted that days after the 1929 stock market crash, Harvard Economic Society followed this same reassuring ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... disappointment of investors, Bernanke has reiterated that the two rate cuts in September and October should stave off a recession, and clear evidence of a stalling economy would be the only thing prompting another cut. However, the downward US housing ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... sub-prime issues are going to filter through and affect the finance sector even more over there, and potentially lead to a recession. "On the home front, the unemployment figures are out tomorrow. "The money markets are starting to price in another rate ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... Black Monday with a widespread sell-off. The US market was also depressed by warnings from a major company of imminent recession and concerns about the US housing market. At 1220 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had recovered a little from early ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... 79 points to 6730 on a volume of 7,226 contracts at 1203 AEST. CommSec market analyst Juliette Saly said fears of a recession in the US were allayed by the release last Friday of better-than-expected jobs data for September. "We were expecting they would ...