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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... LONDON - The FTSE 100 of Britain's leading shares ended higher to reverse earlier losses as a reversal in fortunes for US markets supported and M&A activity coupled with commodity stocks boosted. The blue-chip index ended up 42.5 points, or 0.7 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... nine points to 5730 on 13,733 contracts. ABM Amro Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said local stocks were tracking US markets more closely ahead of the US Federal Reserves decision on interest rates. The decision will be known by local investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US markets staged a recovery in late trading. At 0816 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was up 91 points at 5,470. Today, Zinifex Ltd and Newcrest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... 2.9 per cent, to 5,580.4, and the broader All Ordinaries shed 168.5 points, or 2.91 per cent, to 5630.9. NEW YORK - US markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Day public holiday. US stock index futures sank in shortened trading on recession fears. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... contracts. CMC Markets dealer Matt Wacher said the local market had clawed some of the losses it made at the open. US markets were lower overnight after disappointment there that the US Federal Reserve's quarter of a percentage point rate cut was not ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... breather," Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said. "I suppose when you look at the away the US markets ended it was positive but being down this little is no big thing." Mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton were sluggish ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
... acquisition talk, while oil stocks fell despite steady crude prices. The FTSE 100 ended 106.8 points higher at 6,262.1 as US markets rose on retailers after the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday. The index ended down 29.1 points since November 16. FRANKFURT ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... markets into the red. The benchmark Hang Seng Index dropped 613.27 points to 26,004.92. WELLINGTON - NZ stocks followed US markets down. The NZSX-50 benchmark index lost 16.79 points to 4054.2.

Sub-prime's house of cards

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... Asian markets tumbled after a Wall Street sell-off, following more sour news over the extent of the credit crisis. The US markets stumbled over a negative sales outlook for Cisco, and this story is a house of cards in itself, with a gust of sub-prime ...

Markets shake rattle and roll

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... Australia just gets comfortable to watch the big race, betting all we have on an interest rate hike. Sub-prime mashed the US markets again overnight. As the door closed on Citigroup's ex-CEO Chuck Prince, rumours proved true on the bank's expected additional ...