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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street again rose more than one per cent. At 0632 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 54 points at 4,122. In economic news on Friday, The Australian Industry ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
The Australian market looks set to open modestly higher, following in the footsteps of US stocks. At 0703 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up four points at 4085. In economic news on Wednesday, the Westpac/Melbourne ...

Big Benny and little Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... sales in May were just as markets expected. So where to now, my lovely? I guess we will have to ride the financial market seesaw for a little bit longer. Expect a wild swing next week when the Greek Parliament votes on Papandreou's austerity measures. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... US trade data. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares lost 0.71 per cent to end the day at 5,976 points, continuing a seesaw week. In Frankfurt the DAX also gave up ground, down 0.09 per cent to 7,495,05 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 rose, closing ...

Pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
h no! Wall Street has run out of puff. Wall Street ended flat overnight after seesawing for much of the trading day. In case you start getting an attack from the jitterbug once again, have no fear... nothing much has really changed. After six days of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open moderately higher after a mixed lead from overseas markets overnight. At 0727 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 20 points higher at 4,577 points. In economics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
Australian shares are likely to slump on Wednesday after US and European stocks dropped as fears spread that Europe's attempt to contain Greece's debt crisis would fail. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract ...

Still a two-way street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... the first trading day on Wall Street, the employment numbers haven't done much! That's why we got this index intra-day seesaw on the road to nowhere - the major indices closed virtually unchanged - happening all over again. US non-farm payrolls fell ...

Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... weekly. Fence-sitter? Well, there's only the day's performance isn't it? Oh, but 'undecideds' could also point to the daily seesaw performance on the Street last week. This is hardly surprising given the mixed indications provided by latest US data. ...

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... fake? The Dow climbing past 10,000 or the Dow sinking below 10K? Over the past three trading days, the Dow has been playing seesaw on the 10,000 fulcrum -- over 10K Thursday, under 10K Friday, over 10K Monday. To market technicians and psychos (psychoanalysts) ...