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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
The Australian market has received negative leads from overseas, with Wall Street indices lower, along with precious and base metals and oil. At 0830 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 50 points lower at 4,841. ...

The I word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... days, you must be wondering what this letter 'I' stands for. 'I' stands for inflation. The fear of its return spooked Wall Street into losing more than half a per cent last night. Inflation cast its shadow on the Street after the US Labor Department ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
The Australian stock market has received mixed leads from Tuesday night's offshore trading session, with Wall Street closing lower while oil was higher and metals prices were mixed. At 0822 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... The Australian stock market has received a mixed set of leads from Monday night's offshore trading session. While Wall Street finished higher and metals prices were firmer, the price of crude oil was weaker. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... of reckoning would never come. "But much of it was due to the irresponsibility of large financial institutions on Wall Street that gambled on risky loans and complex financial products, seeking short-term profits and big bonuses with little regard for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... The Australian stock market has received a mixed set of leads from overseas during weekend offshore trading. While Wall Street finished higher after investors were buoyed by better-than-expected US retail sales figures, the price of oil and gold eased. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... catalyst to follow through, and then there was a tail-off," he added. He said there was a reasonably strong lead from Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.67 per cent to 10,405.83. The miners were mostly a little stronger in morning trade ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... dominated trading, searching for bargains. Sentiment was also boosted late in the day by a positive start to trading on Wall Street, where investors reacted positively to news that the US trade deficit narrowed and that jobless claims maintained a downward ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... 27.91 points, or 0.74 per cent, to 3,757.39. TOKYO - Japanese stocks closed 1.34 per cent lower following a slump on Wall Street and a sharp downward revision of the country's third-quarter growth data. The benchmark Nikkei-225 index fell 135.75 points ...

Debt load

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... was largely ignored. Life went on - nothing was standing in the way of the Thanksgiving celebrations in the US - and Wall Street went on its merry way. In fact, over the past few days, speculation ran rampant that the US Federal Reserve is about to raise ...