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Morning market wrap: US stocks rise slightly

US stocks rose slightly as investors banked on better economic times ahead and started buying up some technology stocks. In London, the index trailed lower as mining stocks extended further falls following a drop in the US dollar. The Japanese market ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries close slightly higher

... eastern seaboard have made investors worried, with possible downshifts in market performance expectations for technology stocks primarily. All Ordinaries 3225 +3.5 NASDAQ 1883.10 -4.15 Dow Jones 9545.65 -21.69 FTSE-100 4293.00 -6.00 Hang Seng 11022.70 ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries trail lower

... whilst Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 44.22 points or 0.41%. The Nikkei index plunged 309.99 points or 2.94% as technology stocks reacted badly to a video tape of Al Qaeda supremo Osma bin Laden and renewed fears of terrorism gripped markets on the ...

Morning market wrap: US tech stocks sag, bonds strengthen

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2003
Technology stocks weakened in US trade overnight, undermined by a series of lacklustre earnings forecasts. And broader market indexes also marked time, as buyers moved back into the bond market to take advantage of the sharp rise in yields over the ...

Morning market wrap: US bonds continue sell-off

... points (1.0%) to close at 9,096.7, while the broader S&P 500 lost 14.5 points (1.5%) to end trade at 978.8. Technology stocks were hit particularly hard, and which was reflected in the Nasdaq composite index falling 27.0 points (1.6%) to 1,681.5. A weak ...

Midday market wrap: Australian shares weaker

The Australian share market traded lower Friday morning, following a sharp sell-off overnight in US technology stocks. The Nasdaq composite index ended the US session down nearly 3%, as earnings from Nokia and IBM failed to excite investors. Local losses ...

Morning market wrap: Dow Jones at four-month high

... investors continued where they left off on Friday, lifting the index to its highest point since mid-January. Technology stocks were the prime movers and the Nasdaq index has now climbed by over 50 points in the last two trading days. The overall sentiment ...