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| | | ... hour of trade as Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the US economy is already being hurt by the fiscal cliff standoff in Washington. At 0815 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up three points at 4,599. In local economic ... |
| | | | ... average on track for its biggest gain in December following hopeful signs of progress in budget talks being held in Washington. The Dow was up 97 points to 13,267 heading into the final hour of trade. The Standard & Poor's 500 was up nine points at 1,428 ... |
| | | | ... key rate unchanged was not unanimous. Wall Street was marginally higher as investors remained cautious amid talks in Washington to avert spending cuts and higher taxes. At 0705 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 12 ... |
| | | | The Australian market opened slightly higher after budget talks in Washington indicated that US politicians were willing to compromise to avoid falling off the "fiscal cliff". At 1029 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 0.9 points, or ... |
| | | | ... 4,528.0. Stocks were higher on Wall Street Stocks as traders became more hopeful that a budget deal will be reached in Washington. President Barack Obama said in a speech Wednesday that he thought the budget talks could be resolved in about a week. There ... |
| | | | ... points, or 0.62 per cent, to 4,511.8. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks closed marginally lower as budget talks continued in Washington. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 13.82 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 12,951.78 after spending most of the day ... |
| | | | ... on Wall Street edged lower after a surprisingly weak manufacturing report heightened concern that fiscal deadlock in Washington is already hurting the economy. The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) index fell to 49.5 in November, below the 51.2 ... |
| | | | ... the last 15 minutes of trade on Friday to end mostly in the black, with little hard news to direct trade as talks in Washington over a fix to the fiscal cliff continued. After trading lower for most of the session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished ... |
| | | | ... of a meeting later in the day aimed at finalising a bailout deal for Greece, amid a simmering budgetary impasse in Washington. Tokyo rose 0.24 percent, or 22.14 points, to 9,388.94, Sydney gained 0.25 percent, or 11.2 points, to close at 4,424.2 but ... |
| | | | ... week before that - it's only the markets' sentiment that has changed. It's same old same old for the fiscal cliff. Washington's still in the midst of working on a compromise deal. Only the soundbytes have changed from concerns over Ben Bernanke's warning ... |
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