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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... The news also dragged down shares of a wide range of multinational companies, including IBM and United Technologies. The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its preliminary index of confidence fell sharply in April to its lowest ...

Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... will have to pass on the rate rises as rent increases that could exceed 10 per cent. Making all these ideas academic, a Reuters survey of market economists last week found that 21 out of 24 believe the Reserve will flick the rates switch. At least the ...

Not much of a fix from the freeze

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... able to show they can continue to make repayments. Estimates attributed to Barclays Capital and Moody's (and reported by Reuters and the New York Times) put the number of households likely to benefit at around 250,000, between one fifth and one third ...

Equities' erratic flight path

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... plummeted, buyers fled, asset values went into free-fall and investors snatched their money back in handfuls. According to a Reuters report this morning that BNP's ABS Euribor fund had a 0.97 per cent fall in net asset value after being reopened. The ...

A smoking gun for the RBA

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
... rise and coming in at 1.2 per cent, the RBA board may have all the reason they need for another rate hike. According to Reuters economists' survey, August is the most popular bet for a decision to jack up interest rates and financial markets have more ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... early losses as slightly weaker-than-expected US inflation data lifted sentiment, while merger activity sent Hanson and Reuters higher. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,568.6 points, up 13.1 or 0.20 per cent. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 7,505.35 points ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... Exchange, the June share price index contract reversed 72 points to 6304, on a volume of 19,057 contracts. NEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters) - US stocks rose on Friday, rebounding from their steepest fall in two months, on reassuring inflation news that may ...

A merger made in heaven

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
It looks as though Reuters and Thomson, the second and third-largest providers of financial data respectively, are set to tie the knot in a match made in heaven. The boards of Reuters and Thomson have confirmed they are negotiating a union that will ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... a new record high close for the year, gaining 1.01 per cent. It came amid merger and acquisition news, which propelled Reuters' shares almost one third higher following a company announcement that the news agency had received a takeover approach. The ...

Private equity capital fundraising jumps 50 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
... are experiencing fundraising growth rates of 50 per cent. The fundraisings surge is so great, according to a joint KPMG-Reuters study Private tuition: Insights into how private equity houses nurture their investments in Asia, that the $A19 billion raised ...