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Morning market Wrap: US Fed Reserve holds rates steady

US stocks held onto their earlier gains on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve voted to keep interest rates steady at 45-year lows, as expected. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 64 points to 9672, after briefly rising more than 80 points from Monday's ...

Morning Market Wrap: Exporter demand drives up dollar

The Australian dollar opened stronger across the board today, edging well above the $US0.7000 level after gaining ground from exporter demand, an analyst said. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7046/51 compared with yesterday's ...

Midday Market Wrap: Bond market stronger after yesterday's sell off

The Australian bond market opened slightly stronger today, halting yesterday's sharp sell off. At 0900 AEST the yield on the Commonwealth Government May 2013 bond was at 5.545 per cent from 5.570 at yesterday's close. The yield on the November 2006 ...

Morning Market Wrap: Busy day expected; Dollar bounces overnight

In SYDNEY today, stocks on the Australian share market are likely to rise, following yet another strong lead from Wall St overnight. Trading volumes should pick up, after a subdued session yesterday while NSW, South Australian and the ACT took a public ...

Midday Market Wrap:Tokyo opens high; ASX subdued

Japanese shares opened higher on Monday as investors snapped up Sony Corp and other exporters after an encouraging U.S. jobs report sent Wall Street up and helped underpin the dollar. The Nikkei average was up 0.95 percent at 10,811.52 as of 0005 GMT ...

Afternoon Market Wrap: Quiet end to ASX week

Australian stocks ended the week on a positive but quiet note, as a rally in Telstra and key resources stocks helped lift the bourse in subdued trade. After jumping more than one per cent yesterday, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index firmed another 3.9 ...

Federal Government welcomes ASIC investment banking report

... Treasurer Senator Ian Campbell said. "ASIC's examination did not uncover any indications of the wrongdoing that occurred on Wall St - and we should not underestimate the significance of that - however weaknesses have been identified in a number of areas ...

Morning market wrap: Equities back in favour

Market expectations of a relatively quick war, which will have been reaffirmed over the weekend by the US, UK, and Australian forces' apparently rapid advance towards Baghdad, pushed shares on Wall St and in London sharply higher on Friday, completing ...

Morning market wrap: Shares rally as diplomatic uncertainty ends

Paul Cully After weeks of fruitless diplomacy the US, UK, and Spain today looked certain to brush aside the objections of other UN members and take military action against Iraq. Markets reacted positively to the news. The FTSE-100 jumped 120.50 points ...