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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
The Australian share market is slightly lower as investors put aside good US jobs figures and strong Chinese trade data and focus on a shock profit warning from insurer QBE. Shares of QBE plunged around 20 per cent after the company announced that it ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... outcome of a Beijing meeting debating major economic reforms. Trading sentiment was buoyed on Monday by strong US jobs figures and by healthy industrial production figures out of China - further evidence of a steady recovery from a slowdown earlier in ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
The Australian stock market has opened higher after stronger than expected US jobs figures lifted investor sentiment on Wall Street. Commsec market analyst Steven Daghlian said the local market was following Wall Street higher on Monday in the wake ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street's strong gains following better-than-expected US jobs figures. At 0802 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 55 points at 5,464. The US Labor Department ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on international markets as investors interpret US jobs figures as meaning the Federal Reserve will continue its stimulus measures. At 0817 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... looks set to open slightly higher following a mixed performance on international markets as investors await key US jobs figures. At 0807 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was up 10 points at 5,346. With the US government ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... boosted by improved growth figures and Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics. Weaker-than-forecast US jobs figures raised concerns about the world's number one economy but also fuelled hope that the Federal Reserve will hold off winding down ...

Good US housing news gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
Global economic eyes were on US jobs figures late last week but the real indicator concentrating the minds of investment strategist continues to be US housing prices. The good news is that a range of economic figures over the past few months have reinforced ...

Market Wrap early AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... annoint a successor to President Hu Jintao. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mostly down as better-than-expected US jobs figures were offset by caution ahead of the US presidential election and the start of China's leadership transition. The US dollar ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... 1,414.20, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 37.93 (1.26 per cent) at 2,982.13. LONDON - European stocks rose after strong US jobs figures upstaged poor eurozone manufacturing data, while the euro hit a three-week low versus the dollar, dealers said. London's ...