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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... the market look past a surprise rise in new claims for unemployment benefits. The market shook off a weak start in early trading as investors weighed fresh data showing new jobless claims rising again after dropping for two weeks. But stocks climbed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... The Australian share market was flat at noon as strength in resources stocks helped the market claw back losses in early trading. At 1205 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down two points, or 0.04 per cent, at 4,836.6 while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Galleon sinks $4bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... with $4 billion in assets shuts down after US watchdog SEC investigates the group's founder, Raj Rajaratnam, for insider trading. In a scandal that rocked New York's Manhattan set, Rajaratnam became the latest high profile hedge fund manager criminally ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... and financial stocks. "We had a very positive lead from offshore overnight, with both the US market and commodity prices trading significantly higher," Ms Spencer said. "The copper price rose because of the weaker US dollar and supply disruptions, and ...

Too big to fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... Head fake. So which one is the head 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 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... contracts. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said the negative start to the local trading day was "not surprising" given that there was "no real positive lead" from either Wall Street or commodities markets over ...

Billionaire faces insider trading noose

SEC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... Billionaire Raj Rajaratnam and his New York-based hedge fund advisory firm, Galleon Management, has been charged for insider trading that allegedly saw him pocket over $27 million in illicit gains. The US Securities and Exchange Commission, which laid ...

Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... every reporting season. There will be surprises - pleasant and nasty. The Dow slipped from the 10,000 mark at the close of trading last week on the back of surprises - the nasty kind - from lower than expected profit and revenue results from General ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... go, here we go, here we go. If everything continues to go the way it's going, the Australian dollar could very soon be trading one for one against the big one. My Bloomberg screen currently has the A$ fetching US$0.9208 -- it went as high as US$0.9228. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
The Australian sharemarket rallied to a one-year high in intra-day trading on Thursday, boosted by a strong offshore lead which lifted the local banking sector. By 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 51.3 points, or 1.06 per cent, at 4,882.4 ...