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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... per cent lower, according to IRESS data. Wall Street finished flat on Monday night (AEST), after falling sharply during Friday night's (AEST) session. Meanwhile, futures contract prices for commodities such as oil, gold, silver and copper settled weaker ...

The seventh week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... or pretending to work. For then, our financial markets would be reacting to the 1.5 per cent slump on Wall Street last Friday and Dr. Doomy Roubini's "perfect storm" that would stunt growth from 2013. Add to these, the aftershocks to the aftershock that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... The Australian market is expected to open slightly lower today, after Wall Street stabilised following steep losses on Friday. At 0706 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was down nine points at 4,525. In economics news on ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... almost half a US cent higher at noon, helped by rising commodity prices and a strong lead from Wall St. At 1200 AEST on Friday, the Australian dollar was trading at 106.34 US cents, up from 105.89 US cents on Thursday. Since 0700 AEST on Friday, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... a bearish outlook for the economy -- and late in the morning had clawed back most of the 11.1 points the index lost on Friday. But at the end of the day, it had dropped a further 9.152 points (0.26 percent) to 3,505.61. The total NZX trading amounted ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... cent. Bond prices fell marginally. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note climbed to 3.00 per cent from 2.99 per cent late Friday, while the 30-year bond increased to 4.26 per cent from 4.23 per cent. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... Tinto lost 22 cents, or 0.28 per cent, to $79.54. Copper, nickel, and zinc prices fell on the London Metals Exchange on Friday, Mr Chatterton said. Oil major Woodside Petroleum was a rare bright spot, up 13 cents to $45.83. But rival Santos Ltd fell ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... this seems to be what the current VIX - "fear" -- index reading suggests. Despite another big fall on Wall Street last Friday, the VIX index went down by 0.8 per cent instead of going up. At 17.95, the index is down 38.9 per cent from its 2011 high of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... continue for Australian shareholders on Monday, with the share market tipped to fall following heavy losses in the US on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is in the midst of its longest streak of losses since 2004, following negative reports on ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... off a little bit last night and European markets were significantly weaker," he said. "Volumes are pretty light and on Friday afternoon there tends not to be a great many reasons to get stuck into the market. So it probably suggests we will drift over ...