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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... expand into Asia and, as a result, would cost jobs. Qantas shares were up 3.25 cents, or 2.06 per cent, at $1.608. On Wall Street on Thursday, US stocks shrugged off the eurozone turmoil to rack up solid gains on Thursday, helped by earnings reports ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, after Wall Street and most of the European major markets moved more than 1.5 per cent higher on Greece's indication it would not hold a debt bailout package referendum. At 0825 AEDT on Friday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... turnover at 1207 AEDT was 698.3 million shares worth $1.64 billion, with 332 stocks up, 414 down and 309 unchanged. On Wall Street on Wednesday, stocks rebounded after the Federal Reserve's policymakers kept ultra-low interest rates and said they were ...

Congressmen agitate for US transaction tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... "It's also likely to keep price-earnings multiples low among asset managers," he said, meaning it would be resisted by Wall Street despite a push by Germany and France for the tax to be implemented worldwide. "[But] any momentum for the EU proposal could ...

Machines of loving grace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... Fed has spoken and financial markets thought they liked what they heard. To be sure, to be sure, the 1.5% rebound on Wall Street overnight - and an almost equivalent bounce in Europe - is as welcome as welcome could be. Anything that could break the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... private-sector job creation last month reported by payrolls firm ADP ahead of Friday's government October labour report. Wall Street kept an eye on developments in Europe, where a planned Greek referendum on the country's latest European Union rescue ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... York late Monday but was off its lows. HONG KONG - Renewed concerns over the European debt crisis and a big fall on Wall Street hit most Asian markets on Tuesday while the euro remained under pressure after suffering heavy losses overnight. Adding to ...

Go figure

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... dailymail.co.uk where you'll read all about its "daily mail reporter" warning of another recession. Oh yes folks, can't let Wall Street get away with posting its biggest October gain in 37 years just like that. It has to come with a "proceed at your ...

Market Wrap- Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... payrolls report (in the US) later in the week. "With a five per cent run-up last week and a fairly flat lead coming from Wall Street, maybe some people are just taking a little bit of money off the table, saying wait and see how this week plays out." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... the S&P 500 index, a broader measure of the markets, barely moved, edging up 0.49 point (0.04 per cent) to 1,285.08. Wall Street stocks had opened slightly lower, then clawed their way up in trade lacking clear direction "as traders grapple with the ...