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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... Australia Ltd holds its annual general meeting, and SunRice shareholders vote on their takeover by Ebro. On Monday, Australian stocks closed lower as weakness among finance-linked companies due to offshore worries dragged the broader market into the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... local close of US$1,527.60. National turnover was 390.9 million securities changing hands for $455.13 million, with 363 stocks up, 355 down and 354 unchanged.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... Jeremy Bentham to address Committee for Economic Development of Australia on World Energy Outlook. On Friday, Australian stocks recovered from early softness to end the week higher as bargain hunters moved in to recover value in a heavily sold-down bourse. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
The Australian stock market bounced back from early losses to be higher at noon, with stocks in the materials and retail sectors leading the gains. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 16.9 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 4,677.1, while ...

Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... billion-euro (US$17 billion) aid payment to Greece next month. Bloomberg explains Wall Street performance with the headline, "U.S. Stocks Rise as Higher-Than-Forecast Profits Overshadow Economic Data," citing the 8.6 per cent jump Tiffany - "the second-largest ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... at 4,660.2, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 73.5 points higher, by 1.58 per cent, at 4,735.1. NEW YORK - US stocks ended higher on Thursday after a morning slump, with Nasdaq tech stocks outperforming while the Dow's blue chips gave a feeble ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... the ASX 24, the June share price index futures contract was 38 points higher at 4,627, with 8,715 contracts traded. US stocks posted modest gains on Wednesday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as the market proved resilient to disappointing manufacturing ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... over the past so many days (weeks?). But what do we see? Splattered all over websites is the return of risk-on trades. Stocks on Wall Street and in Europe closed with plus signs in front of them. The S&P 500 index was plus 0.3 per cent higher at the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... executive Sue Morphet addresses an Australian Institute of Company Directors luncheon in Brisbane. On Wednesday, Australian stocks closed lower for the fourth straight session as offshore worries prompted broad based selling on the local bourse. The ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... Australian share market opened slightly lower, dragged down by European debt concerns but balanced by a surge in oil and energy stocks. At 1013 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 0.8 points lower at 4,628, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...