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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on US markets overnight and political turmoil in Greece. At 0803 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 32 points at 4,241. In economic news on Wednesday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... opened lower, with local market players taking their cues from a poor night on Wall Street as the political gridlock in Greece dominated trading. At 1028 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 38 points, or 0.88 per cent, at 4,259.2 ...

Deja vu of deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... Ordinaries index lifted 9.2 points, or 0.21 per cent, to 4,351.9 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have closed firmly in the red as Greece's political stalemate and Spain's banking problems drove new fears about the strength of the eurozone. Meanwhile turmoil ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... close, while the S&P 500 fell by 4.6 points to 1353.39. European stock markets took a hit from political uncertainty in Greece and downbeat euro zone forecasts but then recovered on better-than-expected US inflation and consumer sentiment data. After ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
SYDNEY - Australian shares are set for a flat start to the week as investors await developments in Europe. Greece moved closer to fresh elections on the weekend as talks between political parties, who are divided over austerity measures, failed to establish ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... jour - as everyone's aware - is borne of socialist Hollande's victory in France and the non-victory for any one party in Greece. The message being that austerity is too hard. All those cuts in public spending and increases in taxes implemented in the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... to 4,353.8 points. NEW YORK - US stocks mostly have bounced back slightly after a six-day losing streak, amid hopes that Greece's moderate socialists might be able to form a government and avoid a new eurozone debt crisis. But plunges in the shares of ...

Scare me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... be scared, be very, very scared? Read today's headline on Bloomberg. "Dow Falls 6th Day in Longest Slump Since August on Greece". As with any sensational headline, I immediately booted up my database... and found that it was true. The Dow suffered eight ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... European bourses fell as investors sought shelter from strains in the eurozone driven by political upheaval in France and Greece. At 0855 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 30 points at 4,250. In economic news on Thursday ...