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No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... and the S&P closed 2.9 per cent lower. Or for extra effect, the Dow plunged by 223.32 points! Bloomberg's headline: 'U.S. Stocks Slide in Dow's Worst Drop Since April on Jobs Data'. The Melbourne Age's webpage had something more alarming: 'Weak jobs ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... on Wall Street and European markets. Oil and base metal prices also plummeted, likely to spark falls in local resources stocks. At 0715 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was 82 points lower at 3,779. In economic ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... Wednesday, the Australian share market started the new financial year on a downbeat note, with major resources and financial stocks losing ground after profit-takers moved in. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 80.9 points, or 2.05 per cent, to 3,874 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... June from a revised 54.8 in May. Most analysts expected a much stronger reading of 55.3 points in the 100-point index. Stocks turned sharply lower as investors digested the surprising decline, which suggested consumers were not ready to open their wallets ...

Another red-lettered year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... for domestic equities and hopefully an equivalent gain when the final bell rings. But a one per cent rise in Australian stocks today would still leave one-year returns on investors' money deeply in the red - down 26.5 per cent. The year-on-year performance ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... Exchange, the September share price index contract was 54 points higher at 3884 on a volume of 10,374 contracts. Financial stocks led the way, with the big banks uniformly stronger. Commonwealth Bank shares were trading at $38.50, up 95 cents at 1203 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after US stocks rallied overnight. Higher commodities and oil prices on Thursday also will buoy the local market. At 0707 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract ...

Up, Down, Flat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... in early March 2009. The same message could be inferred from the even broader NYSE Composite Index - comprised of 3,500 stocks - which echoed the performance of the S&P 500. So which one is it? It certainly doesn't help that contemporary economic evidence ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open in positive territory after US stocks finished mostly higher overnight. At 0700 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 22 points at 3,790. In company news ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... Sellers...you've been warned. Given the magnitude of yesterday's decline on Wall Street, it was almost inevitable that stocks in Australia and the Asian region would succumb to gravity. Pause that refreshes. Overnight action on the Street confirmed my ...