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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... Ordinaries index shed 37.1 points, or 1.18 per cent, to 3,111.7. It was the S&P/ASX 200's weakest close since mid-July 2003. NEW YORK - Stocks regained some lost ground on Friday after a jobs report that was bad but not as horrific as many traders feared. ...

Macq makes further cuts

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... Macquarie Bank continues to downsize its operations locally and overseas with more than 40 redundancies made in the bank's New York and London offices and at least 20 people cut from its Melbourne and Sydney branches. This week, Macquarie Bank has cut ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... or 0.7 per cent, at 3,188.5, while the broader All Ordinaries index gained 22.9 points, or 0.73 per cent, to 3,148.8. NEW YORK - Wall Street investors sold stocks after the previous day's burst of optimism, wiping out those gains to send the sharemarket ...

Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... way. And almost like a mirror image of their dismal performance earlier in the week, equity and commodity markets - from New York to Rio and old London town - rallied. Markets blamed Buffett and AIG at the start of the week, shouting sell for doom is ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... 3166.4, its lowest close since August 2003. The broader All Ordinaries shed 45.5 points, or 1.43 per cent, to 3125.9. NEW YORK - Wall Street snapped a five-day losing streak as an expected economic stimulus plan from China and new US efforts to ease ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... broader All Ordinaries index lost 32.4 points, or 1.01 per cent, to 3171.4 - its lowest close since October 1, 2003. NEW YORK - Wall Street had a fluctuating session before ending lower as investors mulled the extent of the economic gloom a day after ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... foretold by his soothsayer warning him to 'Beware the Ides of March.' And so it was. Equity markets around the world - from New York to Rio and old London town -- suffered another convulsion as February gave way to the first trading day of March. No ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... 2003. The broader All Ordinaries shed 93.1 points, or 2.82 per cent, to 3203.8, its lowest level since December 11, 2003. NEW YORK - The Dow Jones industrial average plunged below 6,900 overnight, for the first time in more than eleven years, as pessimism ...

ML downsizes private equity team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... and head of Australia, still remains in his role. Renaud joined Merrill Lynch in 1990, working in high yield finance in New York and corporate finance in London before joining the firm's private equity ranks in 1995. According to Merrill Lynch's website ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... point, or 0.03 per cent, to 3344.5, while the broader All Ordinaries fell half a point, or 0.02 per cent, to 3296.9. NEW YORK - Wall Street ended another unforgiving month with a steep loss as Citigroup Inc and General Electric Co both unsettled investors. ...