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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... - Stocks rose 2.87 per cent, recouping some of their recent losses. Financial stocks led the rebound after the US central bank said it saw moderate growth ahead for the world's largest economy. The Hang Seng Index ended up 628.68 at 22,536.67. WELLINGTON ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... shares rebounded after some initial disappointment that the Fed did not signal a rate cut as investors embraced the central bank's sanguine outlook. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 35.52 points, or 0.26 per cent, to end at 13,504.30. The Standard ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
... cent, to 2,575.98. LONDON - The UK's leading share index rose 0.8 per cent as the Bank of England and the European Central Bank kept interest rates on hold, and a raft of upbeat earnings helped lift global equities. The FTSE closed up 49.7 points, or ...

IMF blames the world

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
While the Federal Treasurer insists Australia's inflation remains within RBA targets, the International Monetary Fund warns central banks must tighten fiscal policies as global growth accelerates. In a July update to its 2007 World Economic Outlook ...

China's rates up again

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... income on deposits to 5 per cent from 20 per cent. While many economists were expecting a strong reaction by China's central bank, there were others, looking at recent increases in grain and meat prices, expecting a softer approach. China's ex-food CPI ...

China's GDP and CPI blowout

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... factories and property jumped 26.7 per cent in H1 from a year earlier, up from the total 24.5 per cent of last year. Central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan wants to cool investment that threatens to leave the nation overrun with factories and cutting company ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... a lot of focus on what's happening in the US," he said. US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will deliver the central bank's mid-year monetary policy report on Wednesday. "Depending on what he says and how that impacts the US dollar, that could also ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
... cent. The Bank of England increased interest rates by 25 basis points to 5.75 per cent overnight while the European Central Bank (ECB) left rates steady at four per cent. In his accompanying statement, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet said "it is not ...

Economic round up: savings follow interest rates

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
As UK interest rates take another hike, Britons are falling behind in a global trend of increased consumer savings. Interest rates were raised in the UK for the fifth time in 11 months and the Bank of England remains concerned that inflation is not ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... the benchmark US interest rate unchanged, at 5.25 per cent, for an eighth straight meeting. At the same time, the central bank signalled it would remain on guard about inflation, which would take an interest-rate cut off the table. After the decision ...