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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... weak economic growth outlook from a Westpac-Melbourne Institute report were behind the local market's declines. However, Mr Smith said, he expected the growth in China would support Australia's major resources exporters in later trading. "China has got ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... ahead of the release of Chinese data due later on Friday (AEST). "This is our big trading partner reporting data today," Mr Smith said from Brisbane. "It looks like a sanguine kind of a day until we get fully seized of the China situation." China's consumer ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... developments in France and the Netherlands suggested diminishing support for using drastic budget cuts to fix the debt crisis. Mr Smith said he expected the market to react positively when the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its Consumer ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... an encouraging sign the local market was up 0.2 per cent in early trade despite an indifferent lead from Wall Street. Mr Smith said there were signs the US economy was starting to pick up, adding that he believed suggestions of a slowdown in China had ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... quiet start to the last day of the trading week. "This is Friday. No one really wants to put themselves out on a Friday," Mr Smith said. Mr Smith said the market was in an accumulation phase, highlighted by the seven per cent improvement in the S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... one direction. "Having travelled sideways for so long, it was overdue to do something and my bet was on the upside," Mr Smith said. Mr Smith said the news from China, as well as the firmer oil price, had supported the rally so far on Monday. CMC Markets ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... $US5 billion ($A4.69 billion) listing in what would be the largest ever initial public offering by a technology company. Mr Smith said the hype surrounding the listing - with some people now valuing the social networking giant at more than $US100 billion ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... the technicals and you get your right brain looking at the fundamentals here in Australia and it is a happy situation," Mr Smith said. The best performing sector was metals and minerals, up 4.01 per cent, according to Iress data. Materials stocks were ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... year profit result, which he said beat expectations and lifted the mood on the market. "That was a good report by them," Mr Smith said. CBA reported a 13 per cent rise in full year net profit, driven by the continuing fall in bad debts since the global ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... avoiding a default was the focus among market players at the start of the trading week. "We are coming down to the wire," Mr Smith said. "Will they play this right to the end or will common sense prevail? That's my question." Among the poorer performing ...