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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... points, or 2.54 per cent, at 3,653, while the broader All Ordinaries index lost 86.5 points, or 2.32 per cent, to 3639.5. NEW YORK - Wall Street was lower in late afternoon trade, with the major indices down almost one per cent. The Dow fell 80.37, or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... 1.37 per cent, at 3,748.1, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen 53.6 points, or 1.46 per cent, to 3,726.0. NEW YORK - Wall Street has ended a turbulent week with another astonishing show of volatility Friday, with stocks plunging, recovering ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... broader All Ordinaries index fell 211.2 points, or 5.44 per cent, to 3,672.4, its weakest close since October 1, 2004. NEW YORK - Wall Street launched a massive rebound after sending the Dow Jones industrials briefly below 8,000. Investors drove the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... or 0.85 per cent, at 3,927.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 38.2 points, or 0.97 per cent, to 3,883.6. NEW YORK - An already disheartened Wall Street turned sharply lower overnight after US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the government ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... US$100/barrel mark in March and continued upwards to hit an all-time high of more than US$147 a barrel in intraday trade in New York. Then it was downhill from there. Crude oil prices went into reverse - a retreat almost equally spectacular as its advance. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... points, or 3.58 per cent lower at 3960.9, while the broader All Ordinaries lost 138.2 points, or 3.4 per cent to 3921.8. NEW YORK - Wall Street took another clobbering on Tuesday as the reality hit investors that few industries are safe from the consumer ...

AIG gets another A$57 billion bail-out

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... decision follows AIG in the US this week reporting that it lost $A36 billion in the September quarter, according to the New York Times. In the same quarter last year it turned a $A3.5 billion profit. This brings to more than US$160 billion the money ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... +3.0 per cent in five years. The government will purchase US$40 billion worth of preferred stocks in the company and the New York Federal Reserve will lend as much as US$52.5 billion to two new limited-liability companies that will buy AIG's toxic assets. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... points, or 2.37 per cent, to 4,051.3 while the broader All Ordinaries fell 99.9 points, or 2.43 per cent, to 4006.6. NEW YORK - Buyers returned to Wall Street on Friday after two days of heavy losses, mindful of the economy's growing problems but attracted ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... cent, to close at 4,149.7 while the broader All Ordinaries index declined 180.8 points, or 4.22 per cent, to 4,106.5. NEW YORK - US stocks were hammered for a second day in a row on Thursday as global markets plunged on fears of a deep worldwide recession. ...