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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... looks set to open lower after Wall Street was trading slightly in the red overnight but European stocks closed higher as traders digested mixed economic data before the outcome of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting. At 0628 AEDT on Thursday ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... weakened to $US1.2971 from $US1.3060 late in New York on Monday. HONG KONG - Asian markets closed mostly flat or lower as traders took a breather from recent rallies and Wall Street provided a weak lead. Tokyo on Tuesday closed mixed as profit-taking ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... week's healthy gains, while heavy losses on Wall Street added to selling pressure. With few catalysts to spur action, traders took the opportunity to cash in after last week's advances, which came on the back of data indicating China's economy will pick ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... European equities fell on Friday, hit by a lack of rapid progress towards a full EU banking union at a key summit, while traders remembered the 25th anniversary of the 1987 global stock market crash. In the US the Dow dropped 1.52 per cent, the S&P500 ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... LONDON - European equities fell, hit by a lack of rapid progress towards full EU banking union at a key summit, while traders remembered the 25th anniversary of the 1987 global stock market crash. At the closing in Europe, London's FTSE 100 index of ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... the euro has hit $1.30 on fresh hopes that Spain will ask for some sort of aid and improved sentiment regarding Greece, traders say. A senior Spanish official said late on Monday that Madrid was mulling a request for a line of credit from the EU's new ...

More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... employment. That 0.3 percentage point rise was the biggest since May 2009. The local dollar gained for a fourth day as traders pared bets Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens will reduce the benchmark interest rate by another quarter point ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... Poor's downgrade of Spain's credit rating overshadowed an upbeat assessment of the US economy by the Federal Reserve. Traders were also following a lead from Wall Street and European investors in the wake of the International Monetary Fund's decision ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... tech-rich Nasdaq Composite fell 23.84 (0.76 per cent) to 3,112.35. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets closed lower with traders on edge about global growth prospects, as eurozone finance ministers trying to get on top of the region's debt crisis established ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... around the company that built its fortune on printers and personal computers. LONDON - European stock markets wavered with traders on edge amid heated speculation over a bailout for Spain and ahead of a policy meeting at the ECB. London's FTSE 100 index ...