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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is likely to open weaker on Friday after a fall on Wall Street overnight. Miners and energy stocks may gain after the price of metals and oil gained overnight. At 0806 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market continued to head lower at noon, following a weak lead from Wall Street. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 19.6 points, or 0.43 per cent, at 4,510.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index had dropped 19.8 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is likely to open weaker on Thursday after a fall on Wall Street overnight. At 0741 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was down 23 points at 4,485 points. In economics news on Thursday ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
"Unusually uncertain" indeed! Flat, flat, flat. This is how the most major equity markets from Asia to Europe to Wall Street finished the past 24 hours. Some closed a little bit higher, others a tad lower, most just flatlined. Because of the "unusually ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... 0.07 per cent, or 6.81 points, to 9,496.85. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks rose 0.64 per cent on Tuesday boosted by Wall Street and with banks' prospects lifting sentiment ahead of the earnings season. The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed up 133.48 points ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Don't bet your house on new home sales... at least, not yet! Wall Street is all a-flutter with welcomed news about the reported 23.6 per cent increase in new home sales to an annualised 330,000 units in June from the previous month. And what was last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... rose 0.55 per cent, or 4.59 points, to 845.88. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks rose 0.12 per cent following gains on Wall Street and optimism about the earnings season for blue chip stocks. The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed up 24.58 points at 20,839.91. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... stronger-than-expected sales figures from Wesfarmers and rises in banking shares. Following a strong finish last week on Wall Street, at 1200 AEST Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 42.5 points, or 0.95 per cent, at 4,500.9 points, while the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after gains on Wall Street on Friday. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 40 points at 4,476 points, on volume of 3,136 contracts. In economics ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
The Australian share market was maintaining its positive momentum at noon, following a surge on Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 78.3 points, or 1.79 per cent, at 4,453 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...