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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... weaker dollar sent commodity prices higher. Major stock indices rose more than one per cent to new 13-month highs. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 115 points. The Standard & Poor's 500 index topped 1,110, the first convincing move above 1,100 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... seasonally adjusted 502,000 in the week ending November 7. They were the fewest claims since January 3. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average settled 94.17 points lower, or 0.91 per cent, at 10,197.47 points. The Nasdaq composite had fallen ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... market bounded higher in early trading but came off its highest levels during the New York session. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had risen 44.29 points, or 0.43 per cent, to 10,291.26 points. The Nasdaq composite had risen 15.82 points ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... third quarter. Given this optimism, the rally in Eurozone equities over the past few months is hardly surprising. The Dow Jones Euro Stoxx Index has appreciated by more than 20 per cent since the end of 2008 and by close to 58 per cent since it plunged ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices and commodities prices mostly lower, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive in afternoon trade and the price of gold was higher. At 0823 AEDT on the Sydney Futures ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... "The market was set to run higher following the big runs in the US overnight," Ms Saly said. In the US on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 203.52 points, or 2.03 per cent. Ms Saly said the focus was on banking stocks, after better than ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... place. Investors saw the agreement as a signal that interest rates would remain low. At the close on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 203.52 points, or 2.03 per cent, at 10,226.94 points. The Nasdaq composite had risen 41.62 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... as investors shrugged off disappointing data showing that US unemployment had risen above 10 per cent in October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 17.46 points, or 0.17 per cent, to close at 10,023.42 points after an up-and-down session. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... January, and fewer than economists had forecast. Productivity figures also had their biggest rise in six years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 2.08 per cent, the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 2.42 per cent and the broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... worker productivity gave investors new reason to be optimistic about the US economy and pushed stocks to big gains. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped almost two per cent on Thursday, while the Nasdaq composite index, which has a concentration of ...