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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... cent, to 4,756.4 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index gained 62.9 points, or 1.32 per cent, to 4,828.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks overcame disappointing economic data on Thursday and ended the day in positive territory, while a dazzling market ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... by 0.21 per cent, at 4,693.7, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 12.3 points, or 0.26 per cent, at 4,765.3. NEW YORK - Widespread gains in commodity prices lifted energy and materials companies as part of a broad stock market rally on Wednesday ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... broader All Ordinaries index was down 63.1 points, or 1.32 per cent, at 4,724.2. Both indices tumbled to an eight-week low. NEW YORK - Technology company troubles and renewed concerns about Europe's debt dragged stocks lower for a second day. The arrest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... at 4,711.4 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had added 10.7 points, or 0.22 per cent, to 4,787.3 points. NEW YORK - US stocks ended the week mired in red on Friday as investors shrugged off US inflation and consumer confidence reports and ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment of a 32-year old hotel maid at the Hotel Sofitel on Times Square, New York. I linked this fiasco to the global financial crisis because what else is there that could drive the head of the most ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... spate of insider trading charges and could be slapped with a 19.5 year jail sentence. Raj Rajaratnam, who co-founded the New York-based hedge fund management firm, Galleon Group, has been found guilty of nine counts of securities fraud and five counts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... 1.15 per cent, to 4,780.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index had lifted 54.6 points, or 1.14 per cent, at 4,858.2. NEW YORK - Tumbling demand for commodities and a drop in the euro led to a broad stock sell-off on Wall Street on Wednesday that pulled ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... 0.65 per cent, lower at 4,725.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 28.1 points, or 0.58 per cent, to 4,803.6. NEW YORK - US shares pushed higher on Tuesday after Microsoft's $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype gave a strong bump to tech stocks. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... reversed course to the downside after trading higher in opening trade on the back of a jump in oil and commodities prices in New York overnight. Market heavyweight BHP Billiton was eight cents, or 0.18 per cent, lower at $44.67, while rival Rio Tinto ...

MLC appoints Schroders global equities manager

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... investment officer Nicky Richards, who arrived from Fidelity in London in January. With 18 years equities experience in New York, London and Sydney, Armitage was most recently head of US equities and a global portfolio manager, as part of a Schroders ...