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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight, with Wall Street's key indices all finishing over one per cent lower. Gold and silver were higher, but oil slumped. At 0716 AEST on the ASX 24, the June share ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
The Australian stock market is tipped to open higher after a mostly positive lead from Wall Street, with the focus for the week ahead expected to be on sales figures due from two major retailers. Both Woolworths Ltd and Coles owner Wesfarmers Ltd are ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... among others, would be watched closely for signs the Chinese government would need to tighten monetary policy further. Wall Street closed marginally higher, while precious metals and oil prices settled firmer. The big miners were lower. BHP Billiton ...

China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
Another day, another sleepy trading day on Wall Street. Both the S&P 500 and the Dow closed an itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny 0.1 per cent. There wasn't much news to move sentiment either way. Oh yes, there were the same old, same old issues masquerading as ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... yesterday's dip. But there's something strange - really, really strange about last night's financial market action on Wall Street. The US stock market is up a little overnight because oil prices rebounded. Strange isn't it? There is now a positive correlation ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 19 points lower at 4,898, with 21,007 contracts traded. Wall Street's indices lost almost one per cent overnight as energy stocks plunged three per cent, and the local market followed suit on ...

Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
So is this the one that ultimately takes the grin off Wall Street's face? According to theage.com.au, " US stocks dropped on Tuesday on worries falling oil prices could set off a reversal in the high-flying energy sector..." It even quoted a certain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... crisis, while the yen also surged. Poor earnings from aluminium giant Alcoa in the United States and a weak lead from Wall Street saw investors focus on Japan after the country was jolted on Monday, a month after the March 11 tragedy, by a 6.6-magnitude ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... operator Transurban was up 10 cents at $5.33 after it reported double-digit growth in revenue in the March quarter. On Wall Street overnight, the major indices closed mixed, with traders concerned about the effect of higher oil and food costs on corporate ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
It's all quiet on the Wall Street front overnight. The US quarterly company earnings reporting season must be about to commence. Just in case. Trading volume was low and bereft of direction. The Dow was up 0.01 per cent and the S&P 500 was down 0.3 ...