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WRAP: Overnight debt and forex

... activity in its area "expanded strongly in April" and optimism ""remained high'. European share markets reacted to Wall Street's losses late Friday after Europe closed, as well as to another dip in the US market on Monday morning. In the UK the FTSE ...

News Corp in talks with Liberty ? Now clearer and muddier

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2004
... active talks. There's some exchanges taking place and conversations, but it's a little sporadic." A reporter from the Wall Street Journal tried to dig a little deeper, asking if Mr Murdoch's "discussions or sporadic exchanges" with Mr Malone related ...

US Fed holds key short-term rate steady

... ordering any possible rate increases. Economists are likely to view that as another move by the Fed to begin to prepare Wall Street and Main Street for an eventual rate increase. Still, the Fed said that with inflation remaining low and companies operating ...

US interest rates likely to rise as inflation builds, poll finds

... Thursday, after the first-quarter gross domestic product report showed a doubling of a key inflation measure, found more Wall Street economists are tilting towards a rise in the federal funds rate by September. Half of the economists surveyed -- 11 out ...

Market Wrap

... $US0.7126 and a high of 0.7237. The Australian share market is likely to fall at the open after continued weakness on Wall Street and in other overseas markets overnight, prompted by a surprising jump in a key US inflation gauge. That sparked fears the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2004
... Australian share market is likely to find itself treading water again at the open, after another lacklustre lead from Wall Street overnight. US blue-chip stocks made gains, but the key indices did not strengthen significantly and the local market may ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2004
Australian stocks look set to soften after falls in Wall Street overnight. The Australian share market yesterday closed slightly lower in lacklustre trading with the Anzac Day holiday in most states making for subdued activity. The benchmark S&P/ASX ...

Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley to lead Google IPO, WSJ says

... and Morgan Stanley to lead a much-anticipated initial public share offering likely to be announced this week, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Citing people familiar with the situation, the daily identified the two securities firms as the ones ...

US March job growth at four-year high, stuns market

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 APR 2004
... payrolls climbed a steep 308,000 in March, the biggest gain since April 2000 and well above the 103,000 rise expected on Wall Street. The unemployment rate, which is determined by a survey separate from the jobs tally, ticked up to 5.7% from the two-year ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2004
... Overnight, it traded between a low of $US0.7445 and a high of 0.7520. The share market is likely to edge higher after Wall Street turned around from four straight days of decline overnight. Yesterday, the local market closed marginally weaker in line ...