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Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... 100 index of leading companies dropped 0.77 per cent to 5,677.75 points, hit also by worse-than-expected British retail sales. The euro rose to $1.2779 from $1.2734 late in New York on Wednesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mostly lower after Barack ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies rose by a slight 0.10 per cent to 5917.05 points, in part on news that British retail sales rose in September. Frankfurt's DAX 30 was up 0.58 per cent at 7437.23 points, while the Paris CAC 40 reversed its intraday ...

Market wrap late PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
Australian shares have opened marginally stronger as a recovery in US retail sales gave a boost to cautious investor sentiment. At 1017 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 22.9 points, or 0.51 per cent, at 4,506.3 points, while the ...

Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... released over the past 24 hours. There's better-than-expected news from that which account for 70% of the US economy. US retail sales jumped by 1.1% in September following an equally strong 1.2% gain in the previous month (revised from up 0.9%). According ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... Tinto is due to release its third quarter review. NEW YORK - US stocks scored solid gains as investors digest upbeat retail sales data and better-than-expected earnings from Citigroup that helped lift financial stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
The Australian market is set to open higher after an encouraging report on the US labour market and better retail sales pushed Wall Street higher. At 0806 AEST on Friday, the local December share price index futures contract was up 11 points at 4,471. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... $US1,657.60 per ounce. Ms Chan said the market's focus this week likely would be domestic economic data releases, including retail sales, employment and gross domestic product. National turnover was million 330.8 securities worth $428.4 million, with ...

The QE question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... Louis Fed's James Bullard last week, "we have some data since then that is stronger." True, true. Recent updates on retail sales, housing, industrial production and the index of leading economic indicators have shown improvement. And just last night ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... "the minutes are a bit stale" for "we have some data since then that is stronger." He may be right. US eco stats - retail sales, consumer confidence, industrial production and the index of leading economic indicators - released last week all improved. ...

Challenger attributes 20% profit growth to annuity/life

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... increase in institutional sales to $704 million together with a record $1.95 billion in retail annuities sales. The retail sales increase represented a 34% rise on the prior year and came on the back of a $16 million expense increase associated with ...