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Saddle up the greenback

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... has morphed into a Shetland pony and the Aussie dollar is one of many currencies climbing on its back. Overnight trading Friday saw Australian dollar rise above US90c for the first time since June 1984 after the US payrolls report eased recession fears ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... an event entitled Best Practice in Employment Engagement. The Australian sharemarket continued its partial recovery on Friday, with a stronger oil price pushing energy stocks higher by local close. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed 38.5 points higher ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... to 6579.9. NEW YORK - US stocks ended maginally higher on Thursday as investors shied away from making big bets before Friday's US jobs data. Though caution prevailed, shares of pharmaceutical companies such as Merck & Co and those of utilities rose ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... say the local market could reach the 7000-point level by Christmas. The record closes broke the previous record set on Friday. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 96.2 points or 1.47 per cent higher at 6659.9, while the All Ordinaries settled 87.8 ...

Dollar for dollar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
... today's open. Alan Greenspan's use of the 'r' word in a BBC Radio interview had depressed US Equity markets for most of Friday night's session. Greenspan said the chance of a US recession was still under 50 per cent, but the probability is higher now ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... 5,692.49. TOKYO - The Japanese financial markets were closed for a public holiday, the day following Autumn Equinox. On Friday, the Nikkei average closed down 0.62 per cent or 101.18 points at 16,312.61. HONG KONG - Blue chips climbed 2.74 per cent in ...

CBA counting on NAB and Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... the proposed scheme for the takeover of IWL by CBA later this year. Lonergan Edwards wrote in their report, published on Friday, that "significant contract risks" existed in relation to the services provided by IWL to NAB and Westpac. Even so, taking ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... was surprised by the strength of the Australian market this morning, which had been steered by gains in the US markets on Friday following the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut. "Quite a number of stocks are going ex-dividend today, which I thought ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher today after substantial Wall Street gains on Friday in the wake of the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut. At 0802 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price Index was up 28 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... 7,479.85. TOKYO - All Japanese financial markets were closed on Monday for a public holiday, Respect for the Aged Day. On Friday, the Nikkei ended up 306.23 points to 16,127.42. HONG KONG - Blue chips fell as investors sold off recently outperforming ...