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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
The Australian stock market was down over one per cent at noon, dragged down by the big miners after base metal prices fell overnight cancelling out a positive lead from Wall Street. At 1217 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 67.8 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... the holiday shopping season. Leading the decline were financial services companies, including Citigroup Inc, the largest US bank, which fell more than four per cent, making the stock the biggest drag on the Dow and S&P 500. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open lower today pulled down by US stocks which turned lower late in the session on Wednesday. At 0805 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was down 12 points to 6600. Today ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
... 2,651.66. LONDON - UK stocks lifted after the British government guaranteed all deposits held by troubled Northern Rock, and US bank Lehman Brothers posted better-than-expected third quarter earnings. The FTSE 100 rose 100.5 points to 6,283.3. FRANKFURT ...

Risky business

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Forget loss of appetite, investors seem to have become risk-phobic resulting in equities along with the Aussie dollar suffering another hammering. In a race to the bottom of the pool, the S&P/ASX200 plummeted 9.9 per cent from June's peak, the Nikkei ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... Citigroup gained on expectations of big job cuts. Reports that Citigroup Inc will cut at least 15,000 jobs lifted the No 1 US bank's shares 1.6 per cent, supporting the Dow and S&P indices. Crude oil prices resumed their climb and helped lift energy ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
The Australian share market should open firmer as higher precious metal and oil prices on Friday feed into the rampant resources sector. Also financial stocks are expected to be firmer ahead of earnings from a couple of the major banks and one of the ...

Daily economic update

The US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) began its two-day meeting last night - the first meeting under the chairmanship of Ben Bernanke. There is almost a unanimous expectation that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by 25 basis points ...

Impact of war should be put in context: ICAP

The dominant factors determining the shape of the global economy over the next year are likely to relate to corrections from economic problems predating the Iraq war, global brokers ICAP said today. ICAP said that past asset bubbles like the tech and ...