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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon after a negative lead from Wall Street and falls in commodity prices overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 31.1 points, or 0.79 per cent, at 3,929.8, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... 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 spending slump ...

Market Wrap - Midday

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... shed 149 points to 3,949 on a volume of 14,980 contracts. Man Financial broker Anthony Anderson said a weak lead from Wall Street and falling metal prices had affected the local market. "It's a pretty average day," Mr Anderson said. "The 60 per cent ...

Depression talk ill-informed and ignores history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... strategists is suggesting," he said. But the credit crisis comes with salutary lessons. Swanson said the collapse of Wall Street partly stemmed from the emergence of financial institutions that became "too big to fail". He predicts that new regulation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... 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 by lower prices. Analysts ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket was weaker at noon after ongoing fears of a global recession affected Wall Street again overnight. At 1212 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 169.6 points, or 4.09 per cent, at 3,980.1 while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... presidency began will magically go away. Even idealists are aware of this, much more so the equity markets. And as long as Wall Street languishes, Australia will remain jittery. More pain is to come. In its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... in Sydney. The Australian share market closed more than four per cent lower on Thursday after an overnight slump on Wall Street as investors worried about the global financial crisis and US recession. The local decline was led by the big miners, and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... noon, dragged down by the miners after sharply lower base metal prices in London and a more than five per cent drop on Wall Street overnight on heightened concerns of a US recession. At 1210 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 143.7 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower today after Wall Street fell on concern that President-elect Barack Obama will struggle to reverse the slowing economy. At 0833 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney ...