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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading over the weekend, with Wall Streets' key indices higher, as generally were those in Europe. Precious metals and oil were lower. On the ASX 24 at 0649 AEDT, the December share price ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
The Australian share market was firmer at noon, boosted by banks and miners, following a modest lead from Wall Street. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 42.6 points, or 0.91 per cent, at 4,742.5, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Grinch vs Santa

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... would be embedded in one of our frying pans when she reads my opening line. But honey, you know I refer not to me but Wall Street. It's performance over the past few days suggest that it still can't make up its mind. The US equity market rose and fell ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... true to my mother's constant warning when I was a little boy - "if you get lost, stay put" - that's precisely what Wall Street did while we were sleeping. The S&P 500 slid by 0.1 per cent and the Nasdaq hopped by 0.1 per cent. And with nothing to do ...

FX broker IPOs on Wall St

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... online foreign exchange broker FXCM raising more than US$200 million through an initial public offering of shares on Wall Street. The company's shares listed at $14 and traded as high as $15.34, giving it a market capitalisation of more than $1 billion. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said local investors were following the lead of the overnight session on Wall Street, where stocks rallied for a second straight day. That was due to a 10.4 per cent surge in US home sales in October and stronger-than-expected ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... in China, Will Robinson. In its bid to choke off inflation, Beijing might be strangling its economy to death. The Wall Street Journal reported that, "In a statement issued late Monday, the State Council, China's cabinet, said it will revise a government ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... company that was higher at noon. IG Markets dealer Chris Weston said the local market had followed a weak lead from Wall Street after details of European Union and International Monetary Fund loans were unveiled in Brussels. Irish Prime Minister Brian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... Australian share market closed marginally higher on stronger metal prices and energy stocks. However, with no leads from Wall Street, which was closed for the Thanksgiving public holiday overnight, local trading volumes were thin. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... by the miners," CMC Markets analyst David Taylor said. "There was a positive lead from European markets overnight, Wall Street was on holidays and we did get a bit of a lift from metals prices and commodities overnight. "Investors are probably taking ...