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Afternoon market wrap: shares close firmer

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2003
... resources today," Macquarie Equities client adviser David Halliday said. "We've had people backing the strong global economic recovery, strong commodity prices and a weaker (Australian) dollar. "In terms of resources it doesn't get much better than that." ...

66,000 new jobs in Australia for February quarter: forecast

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2003
... according to a new report out today. The second quarterly Sydney Morning Herald Employment Forecast said the global economic recovery and a rebound in tourism should take some of the sting out of the looming property slowdown and help drive the creation ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar reaches $US0.7200 overnight

... currencies after disappointing trade deficit and jobless claim numbers cast doubt about the strength of the American economic recovery, offshore analysts said. The analysts also said the US dollar fell for the third day in a row given geopolitical tensions ...

Investors turn bearish on bonds: FSIU

... expecting higher rates as central banks begin to tighten the monetary policy reins given the strength of the current economic recovery," said the FSIU's head of investment research, Dr Rob Pereira. The Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to lift the ...

RBA decision takes economists by surprise

... fact that the primary reasons for the hike is as a result of a strong household credit growth and the overseas economic recovery (primarily in the US and Japan) seemingly well on its way. "The timing of the interest rate hike was a bit of a surprise," ...

Midday market report: Shares surge higher on US data

... Australian bond futures fell overnight after after US manufacturing figures for October painted a picture of strong economic recovery there. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) purchasing managers' index shot to 57.0 points in October from 53.7 ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar sinks below $US0.7000

... muscle for the first time in more than a month as traders read the manufacturing data as a sign that the emerging economic recovery was gaining pace. A trader at an Australian bank said the domestic dollar's fall below the important support level at ...

Morning Market Wrap: Caution ahead of data releases

... currencies against the US dollar overnight on Friday. A return to positive sentiment in financial markets about the economic recovery in the world's largest economy after strong gross domestic product figures last week was bullish for the US dollar ...

Morning market Wrap: US Fed Reserve holds rates steady

... dollar held ground against rivals after a surprising jump in consumer confidence propped up expectations of an economic recovery. After the Fed's rate decision in early morning Australian time, the local unit reached a high of $US0.7065. The Fed's Open ...

Midday Market Wrap: Dollar gets handle over 70 US cents

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2003
... $US0.7000 level it just drove up through it." The Australian bond market was weaker at noon as the theme of economic recovery in the United States returned to dominate market sentiment after strong US jobs data overnight. At 1200 AEST the yield on the ...