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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... companies are smaller businesses that struggle the most in a weak economy. Trading volume was fairly light on the NYSE at 1.2 billion shares. Trading has been particularly slow, even by summer standards in recent days as uncertainty about the economy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... for "manufactured durable goods" -- items such as planes, cars, refrigerators and computers -- decreased by two billion dollars, or one per cent, from the previous month, the Commerce Department said. LONDON - European stock markets closed narrowly mixed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... index lost 25.94 points, or 1.21 per cent, and closed at 2,109.24. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange came to 1.43 billion shares. Losing stocks were ahead of gainers by about two to one. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets rebounded slightly on ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... a 14-year low after the group ramped up the costs so far of its oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico to 2.35 billion dollars (1.9 billion euros). The company's stock collapsed by almost nine per cent in mid-morning trading to plumb a low of 296 pence ...

Euro downs Supermodel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... March -- the first in six months. According to Bloomberg, "Treasury holdings by China rose 2 percent in March to US$895.2 billion, the biggest increase since July." Japan, too, is back buying America. It increased its US bond holdings by US$16.4 billion ...

Gold is hip again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... subscribing to Murphy's Law. After a collective shout of hallelujah, financial markets now consider the European Union/IMF 750 billion rescue package either as insufficient, or a step towards the wrong direction -- moral hazard -- or impotent to prevent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... further monetary tightening, dealers said. New loans issued by Chinese banks fell to 510.7 billion yuan (74.8 billion dollars) in March, lower than the 700.1 billion yuan in February. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market eased to an unimpressive ...

KiwiSaver to drive fin literacy

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... said. The Westpac KiwiSaver Scheme currently oversees 80,000 members. BT's NZ arm manages and administers around $1.6 billion in funds under management.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... three per cent to their lowest in a week after a report that KKR Financial Holdings had delayed repayment of billions of dollars of debt, spooking investors into locking in profits. The Nikkei share average closed down 3.25 per cent, or 447.54 points ...

Perfect storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... has announced it is stepping up its financial commitment to large scale solar energy research. In October 2006 the $300 billion company announced it would be establishing solar farms to power its own campus. But the corporation has recently said it is ...