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Market wrap Early AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... recovery. US manufacturing expanded for the second straight month in October, boosted by higher demand, while consumer confidence surged to a five-year high. At 0654 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 44 points at ...

Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... strong - up 0.9% -- and is consistent with latest indications of an improving labour market and the jump in consumer confidence. And oh, Citigroup beat earnings expectations as did 27 of the 38 companies in the S&P 500 that have already reported so far ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... lower after a mixed lead from the US where stocks gave up early gains on firm bank earnings and a rise in consumer confidence on Friday with worries about the new earnings season clouding optimism. At 0745 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... Industrial Average ended down 101.37 points (0.75 per cent) at 13,457.55. However, earlier in Europe, a jump in US consumer confidence and rising home prices were cited as key factors in the region's markets' positive turnaround after opening on a gloomy ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... dreary ones would have to go to paragraph 9 on page 7 to find that the latest Conference Board data showed consumer confidence jumped to 70.3 in September - the highest since February (hey, that was the time when nearly all indicators were coming in ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... 43.05 points (1.36 per cent) at 3,117.73. Markets opened higher on encouraging data on housing prices and consumer confidence. But in afternoon trade, comments by Charles Plosser, head of the Fed's Philadelphia branch, appeared to spark a selloff. Plosser ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... figures. Meanwhile, the Westpac/Melbourne Survey of Consumer Sentiment, also released on Wednesday, shows that consumer confidence has risen slightly, but remains sluggish despite several cash rate cuts and a relatively solid economy. In equities news ...

Adelaide adviser facing sentence

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... Bean from providing financial services in order to protect the public, deter similar conduct and maintain consumer confidence in the financial services sector. ASIC alleges that Bean, who appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court, misappropriated the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... points, or 1.05 per cent, to 3,048.71. LONDON - European stocks tumbled on downbeat eurozone business and consumer confidence and as expectations dimmed that US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will signal fresh economic stimulus. London's FTSE ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... stimulus measures at Friday's Federal Reserve annual gathering in Wyoming. The Conference Board reported its consumer confidence index dropped to a nine-month low of 60.6 for August, down from 65.9 in July. The S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index of 20 ...