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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... Westpac eased seven cents to $23.17, Commonwealth Bank sagged 11 cents to $51.06, and ANZ lost 11 cents at $23.57. On Wall Street overnight, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average index fell 47.23 points, or 0.44 per cent, to 10,788.05, while the ...

More US investment banks close prop desks

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... the major shareholder in BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with over US$3 trillion in FUM. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was passed by the US congress and signed into law by President Obama in July, incorporated ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
It's a wrap! It's official! September 2010 is the man! Wall Street may have been down for the day but it produced the best September gain even before many of us were born. The S&P 500 index soared by 8.8 per cent in the month, the Dow jumped by 7.7 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
The Australian stock market has received negative offshore leads overnight, as investors in Europe and on Wall Street tried to balance better than expected US economic data against eurozone debt fears. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0800 AEST, the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... which includes the possibility of taking a majority interest in an exploration joint venture in Papua New Guinea. On Wall Street overnight, stocks finished a volatile session lower as traders continued to speculate over further Federal Reserve intervention ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
The Australian market received negative leads from Wall Street and Europe overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0800 AEST, the December share price index futures contract was five points lower at 4,668 points. In economic news the Reserve Bank ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Looks like something's gone wonderfully wrong on Wall Street this month. This isn't the month to be jolly but with only two winks left before the seventh moon of 2010 is over, the US stock market is on course for its biggest September gain in 71 years. ...

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
We've been told that the US recession officially died 15 months ago and Wall Street, it seems, is no longer grieving. In fact, the S&P 500 index looks on track to claim its "biggest September gain in 71 years" - unless Bloomberg is mistaken, that is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... Macquarie Private Wealth division director Lucinda Chan said the Asian markets had opened strongly following robust Wall Street gains on Friday and record-high gold prices. The Shanghai Composite Index had returned to trading after a three-day close ...

One voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
So where's the September curse now, 'ey? With just four trading days to go, Wall Street may have forgotten that this month is statistically and historically the worst month for stocks. Not that nobody tried to remind investors, there were plenty of ...