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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
The Australian share market has followed offshore markets higher in opening trade, with investors encouraged by signs from US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the US would keep interest rates low. At 1013 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
Australian stocks were more than one per cent higher at noon, with the energy and resources sector leading the broader market higher. A firmer oil price during weekend offshore trading, as well as news China had lowered its reserve banking requirements ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
The Australian share market was largely positive as investors digested the impact of the Greek parliament's vote for austerity measures to secure an international bailout. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 3.7 points, or 0.09 per cent ...

China on course for slowdown, not landing: Fidelity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
Debate over whether China is in for a soft or hard landing is overplayed, according to David Urquhart, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Asia Fund. Speaking at a Fidelity briefing in Sydney this week, Urquhart pointed to recent IMF projections of 8.2% ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Something looks wrong - very, very wrong - with how financial markets are conducting themselves nowadays. Investors greeted 2012 with almost universal agreement that the global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower. At 0635 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was down six points at 4,180. In economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
The Australian market is set to open significantly higher as world markets surged on a move by six central banks to boost liquidity for banks weighed down by downgraded government debt. European markets rose by over three per cent and Wall Street is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
Australian shares were flat at noon with cautious investors lacking confidence heading into a long weekend. The market opened flat after the US market's less-than-expected response to Germany's approval to beef up Europe's rescue fund to stave off a ...

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
It's the same old, same old story playing (dragging on) on our financial screens - the tragedy that is Greece. And just like times past, it's leaving a sour taste on investors' mouths. The recent update talks of Greece's meeting with the troika of alms-givers ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
Australian shares fell by around 1.6 per cent at noon, extending losses from the open as investors remain uncertain about the eurozone debt crisis. By 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 65.5 points, or 1.6 per cent, at 4,083.9, while ...