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Morning Market Wrap: Dollar hits six year high

... 1039.25. The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index added 14.39 points to 1907.85. With little economic news on tap, Wall Street investors are waiting to see whether earnings reports meet their expectations. Reports are already trickling in but the ...

Morning Market Wrap: Busy day expected; Dollar bounces overnight

... as investors bet the economy and corporate profits are on the mend as they wait for the earnings season to heat up. Wall Street experts cautioned that it was difficult to draw conclusions about the market's direction on a day when some traders were out ...

Midday Market Wrap:Tokyo opens high; ASX subdued

... higher on Monday as investors snapped up Sony Corp and other exporters after an encouraging U.S. jobs report sent Wall Street up and helped underpin the dollar. The Nikkei average was up 0.95 percent at 10,811.52 as of 0005 GMT after rising 1.09 percent ...

Morning Market Wrap: US stocks surge; AU$ weaker

... soothe worries that the economic rebound would be held back by weakness in employment growth, which had been dogging Wall Street in recent weeks. The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 44.35 points or 2.42 per cent to 1880.57. The broad Standard ...

Midday Market Report: Dollar firm; All eyes on Japan

... defend dips in the US dollar. Tokyo stocks opened slightly higher today, with bank issues fuelling the rise following Wall Street's uptick. The US dollar was lower against the yen. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was ...

Midday Market Wrap: Wall Street encourages Australian shares; dollar strong

... share market, led by the banks, media and miners, continued to move higher to noon, encouraged by the solid rise on Wall Street overnight. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index improved 27.8 points to 3187.0 while the all ordinaries added 27.6 points to 3192.4 ...

Midday market wrap: Banks keep ASX above water

AAP. COMMONWEALTH SECURITIES  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2003
... in the banking sector kept the Australian stock market above water at noon, following a nervous start and losses on Wall Street overnight. By 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 6.2 points to 3179.0, while the all ordinaries index has also ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ords follow US lead downwards

As expected, the All Ordinaries followed the lead by its US counterparts in Wall Street as indices dipped lower due to the sudden OPEC decision to reduce oil supplies by 3.5 per cent and send oil prices higher. The decision by OPEC is unlikely to have ...

Morning market wrap: Wall Street hit by OPEC cut in supply

Higher energy prices, as OPEC cut back 3.5 per cent of its supply, have adversely-affected Wall Street as the Dow Jones fell 150.53 points or 1.6% of its value. The Nasdaq also fell, by 58.02 points or 3.15% in trading overnight. The FTSE-100 has managed ...

Midday market wrap: All Ordinaries gain slightly

... All Ordinaries only rose 4.4 points or 0.14per cent in trading to 3225.9, following softer closings last night at Wall Street and London. Meanwhile the Japanese Nikkei index lost 104.63 or 0.96% in trading today to register at 10885.48. Meanwhile the ...