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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... Deutsche Securities initiated coverage of the stock with a "buy" rating, but some exporters were hurt by growing US recession fears. The Nikkei average ended up 0.82 per cent or 107.91 points at 13,207.15. HONG KONG - Hong Kong was one of many Asian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... down 9.62 points, or 0.42 per cent, at 2,299.95. LONDON - UK stocks climbed, tracking a rise on Wall Street and as US recession fears prompted investors to scurry into defensive stocks as bank shares took yet another whipping. The FTSE 100 closed up ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... The Australian share market is expected to open lower following declines in US stocks overnight as concerns about a US recession escalated. In London, base metal prices were weaker. At 0713 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index ...

World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
World economic growth is expected to drop by one-fifth in 2008 to 4.1 per cent down from 4.9 per cent, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "There was a risk that the ongoing turmoil in financial markets would further reduce domestic ...

Jumping volatility not yet swaying sentiment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... The good sentiment news may however lead to mixed interpretations about views of possibly, or possibly not, looming US recession as the intense focus upon it may lead to concern if it doesn't eventuate or uncertainty about how and who has factored it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... Nasdaq Composite Index lifted 27.21 points to 2,319.48. LONDON - UK stocks slid 2.2 per cent on persistent fears of a US recession. The FTSE 100 dropped 130.8 points to 5,609.3 FRANKFURT - The DAX index shed 330.26 points, or 4.88 per cent, to 6439.21 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... CAC-40 index added 98.09 points to 4842.54 points TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average plunged 5.65 per cent as fears of a US recession hurt global markets. It reversed 752.89 points to 12,573.05 HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks collapsed 8.65 per cent on global ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
The Australian share market had plunged deeper into the red at noon, amid concerns of a US recession and its likely impact on global growth. At 1215 AEDT the S&P/ASX200 index was down 260.6 points, or 4.67 per cent, to 5,319.8 and the All Ordinaries ...

What US recession?

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
Fears about the US economy plunging into recession have been overstated, overplayed, and blown out of proportion - but the outlook for 2008 still looks fairly benign, according to economists from Lehman Brothers. "There's a 60 per cent chance, in our ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... in volatile trade, racking up its third successive day of losses. Commodity shares took a whipping on fears of a US recession. The FTSE 100 shed 0.68 per cent or 40.5 points to 5,902.4, after rising as much as 1.4 per cent earlier in the day. The index ...