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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... Ordinaries index rose 22.5 points, or 0.48 per cent, to 4,670.4. NEW YORK - Wall Street was closed overnight for the Independence Day public holiday. On Friday, US stocks jumped sharply higher, closing out the best week in two years and starting the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... hours, with these two key votes getting through," she said. The immediate focus of the market going into the US Independence Day long weekend would be the US June manufacturing data tonight. Ms Ong said local data released on Friday, including a performance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... points lower at 4,175 points on turnover of 4,500 contracts. With Wall Street markets closed on Monday for the Independence Day holiday, the local bourse took its lead from European markets, which closed around 0.4 per cent lower. All major sectors on ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... financial market's overnight. Not a soul was stirring... not even a mouse. The Americans are celebrating their Independence Day. They're on holiday. This gave me a holiday too... that is, a holiday from the daily noises - shouting the sky is falling ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... level since July 31, 2009. NEW YORK - There was no trade in New York overnight, with Wall Street closed for the Independence Day holiday. LONDON - European stock exchanges wilted on Monday but losses were far less dramatic than those of last week, in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... the resources sector was the only one holding the market above water during a quiet trading day ahead of the US Independence Day market holiday on Monday. "The news about Centennial Coal just shows this new mining tax is probably going to open the gate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... 1,022.58. Volume was thin ahead of the long holiday weekend. The US markets will be closed on Monday for the Independence Day holiday. LONDON - European stock markets closed broadly higher on Friday after mixed US employment figures that analysts said ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... A director at EL&C Baillieu Stockbroking, Richard Morrow, said a poor lead from Wall Street and the impending Independence Day holiday in the US had helped push the Australian bourse down. "The market is very, very soggy today," Mr Morrow said. "There ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... nine. Low volume equals exaggerated equity movement - up or down. But who cares? Tomorrow's the 4th of July - Independence Day! Traders are perhaps more concerned about what to put in the barbie. But on a more serious note, some commentators are again ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... the banking sector down heavily. "We didn't have a lead from the US market as it was closed on Friday for the Independence Day public holiday and the European market was pretty wishy-washy, so there was no positive lead coming from anywhere." Mr Heffernan ...