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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... futures contract was up 45 points at 4,042, with 8,539 contracts traded. The local market received a mixed lead from Wall Street, with a negative report on new US factory orders in April weighing on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow closed 17.11 ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... optimism takes hold. Perhaps not - if things get worse and panic ensues. But then, there's the Bernanke put. Chances are Wall Street would come out at the other side of 2012 with a plus sign - it's an election year after all and history shows that Wall ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher after mixed results on Wall Street overnight. At 0756 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 4,017. In economic news on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... down 73 points at 3,997, with 18,393 contracts traded. The local market dropped after major indices in Europe and on Wall Street slumped on the back of disappointing US jobs figures, slow US manufacturing growth, record unemployment rates in Europe and ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... and April after revisions. The unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2% from 8.1%. OMG! Thus, it's hardly surprising that Wall Street behaved the way that it did. The Dow closed 274.9 points on the day for a 6.2% loss for all of last week that erased all ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open lower following major falls on Wall Street and European bourses on poor US jobs data and weak economic news from China and the eurozone. At 0750 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... opening trade, driven by weaker materials stocks, aggressive short selling of the top 50 stocks and a soft lead from Wall Street. At 1011 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 22 points, or 0.54 per cent, at 4,054.3, while the broader ...

Down and out in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... forgotten. Just our luck 'ey Virginia, the euro tragedy did a replay last month, giving more meat to that age-old adage on Wall Street to "sell in May, then go away." Investors sold all right. They sold big time and went far, far away. How far, far away? ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street and European bourses overnight. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down 11 points at 4,062. In economic news on Friday, The Australian ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... seen over the past few days would continue. Yes Virginia, we got volatility all right but the optimism didn't last. Wall Street and European equities gave back the big gains they made only yesterday - and then some - as fresh polls in Greece show the ...