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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Australian stocks are tipped to be pushed into the red again today after America's credit rating was downgraded for the first time in its history over the weekend. Hopes for a bounce on the Australian share market after a horror Friday appear to have ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... sluggish. "Everything that's leveraged to the global growth scenario is getting absolutely pummelled," Mr Le Brun said. "Stocks across the board are being marked down... It's very much a macro approach being taken by investors." At 1200 AEST, energy ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... Investments (GMI), a listed investment company (LIC) with $290 million in funds under management specialising in global mining stocks, said the Future of Financial Advise reforms had changed the game for the sector. "The financial planning industry previously ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Australian stocks plunged at the open after world markets fell sharply overnight and experts say more grief is to come. At time of writing, the All Ordinaries Index was down 173 points or 3.97% to 4179.9 while the S&P ASX 200 had given up 156.5 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... dropped more than two US cents overnight as fears rise over the US economy and the European sovereign debt crisis deepens. US stocks also fell, down more than four per cent and European stocks fell over three per cent At 0700 (AEST) on Friday, the Australian ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... trade was following the trend in the US, where Wall Street rebounded overnight after heavy selling earlier in the week. US stocks closed flat to higher in overnight trade, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended an eight-day losing streak. "Clearly ...

Market woes cause adviser headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... analyst has said, while financial advisers faced with worried clients have been told to get back to basics. Australian stocks have been in rapid reverse with the S&P/ASX 200 Index falling more than 13% in the past four months, breaking a key support ...

Ready to turn on the tap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... meant 'because of'. Yes, because the more of these we get, the stronger the case for QE3 becomes. Here's Bloomberg's take: "Stocks rebounded after the Wall Street Journal reported that three former top officials at the Fed said the central bank should ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... the September share price index futures contract was 79 points lower at 4,316 points, with 17,000 contracts traded. US stocks overnight lost most of their gains for 2011, as poor economic data overshadowed a congressional deal to raise the country's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... fall of 3.5 per cent were well below economists' forecasts of a rise of 2.5 per cent. Financial, healthcare, and materials stocks led the market lower. Among the big banks, National Australia Bank was down 62 cents, or 2.5 per cent, at $23.87, Westpac ...