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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street stocks barrelled to new records, following strong US car sales and Chinese manufacturing data. At 0645 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 19 points ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... broader All Ordinaries index shed 44.8 points, or 0.82 per cent, to 5,401.6. NEW YORK - The Dow and S&P 500 edged to fresh records with the chances rising for GE's acquisition of parts of France's Alstom and fighting in Iraq lifting oil prices. The Dow ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... broader All Ordinaries index shed 44.8 points, or 0.82 per cent, to 5,401.6. NEW YORK - The Dow and S&P 500 edged to fresh records with the chances rising for GE's acquisition of parts of France's Alstom and fighting in Iraq lifting oil prices. The Dow ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... The Australian share market is higher following a strong lead from Wall Street. The Dow and S&P 500 advanced to fresh records on Friday amid a lift in oil prices and the French government having favoured General Electric's proposal to take over Alstom's ...

S&P 500: 22 corrections in 6 months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... numbers. Its survey for the week ending 18 June 2014 - that was last week even before the S&P 500 and the Dow broke previous records - showed the percentage of individual investors who are bullish over the next six months dropping by 9.5 percentage points ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Thailand coup, China-Japan/Malaysia/Vietnam/Philippines island dispute, Ukraine - yet the S&P 500 index continues to break records. But let's just concentrate on the ones that directly impacted oil prices. Gulf War 1 in the 1990's sent oil prices soaring ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... All Ordinaries index shedding 38.7 points to 5,460.5. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks retreated from the previous day's records as investors looked ahead to Thursday's European Central Bank meeting and Friday's monthly US jobs report. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... points to 5,504.5 and the broader All Ordinaries index shed 13.9 points to 5,485.3. NEW YORK - The Dow and S&P 500 hit new records on fresh merger and acquisition activity, even as the Nasdaq Composite Index dipped slightly. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... negative lead, with the main indexes losing ground in an end to a five-day rally that saw the Dow and S&P 500 notch up fresh records. Tokyo slipped 0.75 per cent, or 107.55 points, to finish at 14,298.21 and Seoul was flat, edging down 0.63 points to ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... again. To save me some time clicking through cyberspace, here's the list of headlines from Bloomberg: S&P 500, Dow Climb to Records on Tech Rally; Copper Gains. Canadian Stocks Rebound From Worst Week Since June. German Stocks Rise to 11-Week High; Sky ...