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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
The Australian share market has received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street ending mostly weaker, while precious metals and oil prices rose overnight. At 0713 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was ...

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
PAID! Ten big American banks will get this stamp on their TARP loans after the US Treasury approved their repayment of a combined US$68 billion of taxpayers' money. No names were mentioned on which banks are queuing up at the Treasury cashier to pay. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was weaker at noon, despite gains made by Rio Tinto and gold miners. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 16.5 points, or 0.43 per cent, at 3,808.1, while the broader All Ordinaries had lost 10.4 points, or 0.27 ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
You've been warned, Australia! Standard & Poor's and Moody's threatened Australia with a downgrade in its sovereign risk rating if the National Budget remains in deficit over the medium term. My, oh my, I am so scared. And so we all should be. Because ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
Australia's sharemarket was 0.75 per cent higher at noon, led by the big miners. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was up 27.4 points, or 0.75 per cent to 3695.6 while the broader All Ordinaries was up 25 points to 3652.2, shrugging off a decline ...

China caps executive pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... the Communist nation increasingly divided over uneven distribution of economic benefits. The initiatives are expected to wash through the economy as SOEs includes not just finance companies but industrial giants and including their significant interests ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly higher after US stocks recovered late in the trading session on positive economic reports. Gold miners may gain on the rise in the precious metal and energy stocks may decline after the oil price ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to open little changed following the pullback in US stocks after Monday's surge. Resource stocks may decline after metals prices fell. At 0728 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
The Australian share market is expected to rise after US stocks surged on the government's plan to help banks remove bad assets from their books and a report that showed existing home sales rose in the US. At 0736 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Wall Street jumped again overnight but Main Street's mood has turned from nervous insouciance to outright outrage. Hip, hip, hurray! Wall Street greeted St. Patrick's Day with a 3.2 per cent rally in the S&P 500, a 2.5 per cent jump in the Dow and the ...