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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
The Australian share market was higher at noon, extending gains from early trade after US President Barack Obama delivered a highly-anticipated speech on his plan to stimulate the US economy. The local bourse opened slightly higher on Friday, despite ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... 0.16 per cent, to 4,269.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks slid Thursday as traders awaited a key speech by President Barack Obama to Congress on stimulating the economy and job growth. After snapping a three-session slide Wednesday with a triple-digit gain ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
US president Barrack Obama has defied critics who thought his climbdown last month with Congress over the debt ceiling would make him gun-shy, by proposing a jobs stimulus package that is nearly as big as the entire Australian commonwealth annual budget. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... markets had tumbled, were helped along by a strong opening on Wall Street a day before a key speech by US President Barack Obama in which he is expected to announce fresh measures to boost employment and stave off recession. The euro also benefited ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... client adviser Greg McPherson said volumes were below average as investors awaited firmer direction from US President Barack Obama's speech on Thursday (US time), which is expected to propose $US300 billion ($A286 billion) in federal spending and tax ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... inability to rein in its mounting deficits. US stocks started falling as markets opened and hit new lows after President Barack Obama gave a televised speech to defend Washington's credit-worthiness and declare that the United States "always will be ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... biggest economy. Dealers said the turnaround was brutal in European trade after solid gains in Asia on President Barack Obama's announcement that he had reached an accord with his Republican rivals on raising the debt ceiling and spending cuts. News ...

Agreement reached on debt ceiling

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... agreement to raise its debt ceiling, narrowly averting what might have become a global economic disaster. US President Barack Obama announced that Democrat and Republican Party leaders in both the House of Representatives and the Senate have backed the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... soaring after the United States avoided a debt default with an eleventh hour agreement to cut its deficit. President Barack Obama said the deal will cut about $US1 trillion in spending over 10 years and avoid default, which would have had a devastating ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... Australian Industry Group/Pricewaterhouse performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for July is due. US President Barack Obama is due to give a speech on negotiations to avert a US debt default at 1100 AEST. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will release ...