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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... Falling banking stocks dragged the main US market indices down on Thursday amid worry about fallout from a Greek default, but Apple and Netflix helped the Nasdaq gain for a fourth straight day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 40.72 points (0.35 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... Portugal. Bank of America surged 6.4 per cent, JPMorgan Chase was up 5.2 per cent and American Express added 4.7 per cent. Apple leaped 5.1 per cent after saying pre-orders of the new model of its hit iPhone 4 smartphone topped one million units in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... after recovering from the 2008-2009 financial crisis. After seesawing from negative to positive territory and back again, Apple's shares closed little-changed, losing 0.23 per cent, in the first day of trade after the death of company founder and visionary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... adding 3.08 per cent after losing nearly five per cent Wednesday. Tech stocks were dragged down by a 1.62 per cent drop in Apple and a 3.16 per cent fall in Amazon, a day after Amazon launched its assault on Apple's iPad with a new tablet that sells ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... profits that fell short of analysts' expectations. The news confirmed fears that RIM's BlackBerry devices are losing ground to Apple's iPhones and Google's Android smartphones. At a meeting in Poland, the euro zone's finance ministers decided to delay ...

ASIC surveillance sharpens focus on AFS licensees

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
Financial services licensees must effectively monitor business models for possible conflicts of interest and prioritise training and supervision of advisers, said ASIC, as part of plans to raise standards in the advice industry and hold gatekeepers ...

Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... is losing business to what most of you are currently reading this piece on now? Yes, that's right on your iPhone or iPad. Apple's taken over. Recall Apple's earnings announcement last month? It sold 20.34 million iPhones in the third quarter - 142% more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... strongest one-day rally this year, driven by robust earnings from companies like IBM and Coca-Cola. Wednesday's big winner was Apple, whose shares surged 2.7 per cent after it reported that its second-quarter profit soared to $US7.31 billion ($A6.84 ...

Earnings, debt ceiling and debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
So now equity investors have finally taken notice of earnings. "Wall Street up on profits, Apple surges late," beamed Reuters' headline. Oh yes, Virginia, Wall Street was not only up - it was up big time. Both the Dow and the S&P500 gained 1.6% overnight ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... Dow blue chips were up, led by a 2.8 per cent climb by Alcoa and a 2.2 per cent jump by JP Morgan Chase. On the Nasdaq, Apple added 2.2 per cent and Yahoo 2.8 per cent. The markets got a boost from the release of the ISM purchasing managers index for ...