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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... utilities dipped last month but was actually higher in previous months than first estimated, according to the Federal Reserve. Stocks rose broadly. All of the 10 groups rose in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, the basis for most US mutual funds. The ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... pessimistic than they had been since July last year, he said. "We've seen a lot of panic selling this week. People are throwing stocks out the door and asking questions later, regardless of the fundamentals," he said. "I think the fundamentals stand ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... companies affected by higher food costs fell. McDonald's Corp and Starbucks Corp both fell two per cent. LONDON - European stocks fell, despite an earlier bounce in Tokyo, with sentiment hit by fears over Japan's worsening nuclear crisis, Bahrain unrest ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
The Australian share market was continuing to rise at noon as investors buy back into stocks that were sold off in the wake of Japan's crisis. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 50.7 points, or 1.12 per cent, at 4,579.4 points, while ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... 4,528.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index lost 100.2 points, or 2.13 per cent, to 4,609.9 points. NEW YORK - Stocks have closed sharply lower as the nuclear crisis in Japan weighed on global markets. The stock market dropped sharply at the ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... spends - to rebuild infrastructure and increases welfare expenditure - businesses spend - to rebuild factories, refurnish stocks and restart operations - and consumers spend - to rebuild properties and replace what were lost. There'll likely be more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... was down 51.24, or 0.43 per cent, AT 11,993.16. The Nasdaq composite was down 14.64, or 0.54 per cent, at 2,700.97. Two stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume came to 969 million shares. LONDON - European stock markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... week, their largest losses since late May. The market has closed lower in seven out of its past 10 sessions. NEW YORK - US stocks finished a down week with modest gains on Friday as investors gauged the fallout from a massive earthquake that struck off ...

Fund managers to face new norm in liquidity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... identify price improvements and spread savings, are becoming increasingly prominent and allow clients to come in and buy stocks directly rather than going through a sales trader. The ASX suggests that high frequency trading accounts for 4-5 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... seeing some resilience in some parts of the market. "The industrials are actually not faring too badly. "Currently, most stocks are now trading well above their lows for the day after the initial panic-sell, and some value buying has come in." Resources ...