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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly stronger today after a late dive on Wall Street wiped out earlier gains following the Federal Reserve's half a point interest rate cut. At 0801 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... shares rose $1, or 3.73 per cent, to $27.82 and Westpac was 75 cents higher, or 3.66 per cent, to $21.25. Overnight, Wall Street enjoyed an astounding advance, the Dow Jones industrials soaring to their second-largest point gain ever as late-day bargain ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... their daily amusement fix. They only have to read the way the media interpret the daily movements in the stockmarket. Wall Street rallied almost 11 per cent last night. Here is Bloomberg's interpretation, 'Stocks rallied and the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open strongly today after Wall Street experienced its second-largest point gain on record and Asian markets also surged. At 0800 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... miners up, obviously something had to be down and there you are seeing a direct response to what happened overnight on Wall Street," Mr Sekely said. "The market in the States wasn't all that bad during most of the day and then, just as we got to the ...

Conviction where it counts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... make big calls outside the benchmark and fund manager Nicholas Applegate did just that before the bottom fell out of Wall Street. Pedro Marcal, who is second in command to US-based chief investment officer and managing director Horacio Valeiras, was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... Ordinaries index shed 63.3 points, or 1.65 per cent, to 3,768.3, the lowest end of day for four years. NEW YORK - Wall Street opened with steep losses last night but then swung higher as traders took some comfort from a positive report on US home sales ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower today after Wall Street joined stock markets around the world in a huge selloff on Friday. At 0810 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 37 ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... Livermore). While most of us were sleeping (those lucky enough to have their A$1 turn to A$0.80 instead of A$0.20), Wall Street was again going through another of its wild gyrations. In a span of one trading session, the S&P 500 index swung between a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open in positive territory today as shares Wall Street jumped just before close. At 0730 AEDT, the December Share Price Index futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 63 points at 3,970. There ...