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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher today after the Wall Street lifted more than 302 points on Friday night. At 0745 AEST, the September share price index futures contract on the Sydney Futures exchange was 72 points higher at 5,034. ...

Account switching is too much trouble

... the House of Representatives Economics Committee inquiry into banking competition, which starts its public hearings on Friday in Melbourne. In a statement issued in February the Australian Bankers Association (ABA) said the industry had adopted a number ...

RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... to conduct its own monetary policy assessment, followed by the Bank of England and the European Central Bank meetings on Friday.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... of the few markets to post gains. The benchmark NZSX-50 index was up 16.06 points at 3319.22, after losing 33 points on Friday.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... off with a head of steam but pricing has come back into line with the performance of both equity and commodity markets on Friday," Mr Halliday said. Market leader BHP Billiton fell 76 cents to $38.35 and Rio Tinto lost $1.91 to $119.69. Listed property ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... businesses and workers still face a tough economy. The miners may decline as metals including gold and copper slipped on Friday. At 0745 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index futures contract was 38 points lower at 4,875. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... thousands in recent months, the stock market is eager for any insights into the Labor Department's take on the job market on Friday. The Federal Reserve also announced it will extend its emergency borrowing program for Wall Street banks, which reassured ...

Who's next to confess?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... percent in its 2008 earnings. The statement came on the heels of NAB's announcement of an A$830 million write-down last Friday. This turn of events has raised market speculation on which domestic financial institution will be the next to confess to having ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... Bank, Australia's fifth largest and a takeover target for Westpac, slid $1.80 cents, or 6.33 per cent, to $26.80. NAB on Friday announced it would book an extra $830 million provision on a portfolio of securities linked to US mortgage debt. Mining giant ...

This Week's Market Movers (28 Jul - 1 Aug 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... 50.0 in July from June's 50.4. The US economy's scorecard, the advance estimate of second quarter GDP will be released on Friday. US real GDP is forecast to grow at an annualised rate of 2.2 percent in the June quarter, up from the 1 percent rate in ...