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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... and the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits fell last week to 414,000, more of an improvement than economists expected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 64.25 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 11,961.52 points. The S&P 500 rose 2.22 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... closing price of $US1,546.28. Home loans approved in April also rose 4.8 per cent, more than double the rate expected by economists of 2.3 per cent. "That's obviously a very strong turnaround. The last three (months) were very negative," Mr Saffer said. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... below forecasts for 169,000, spooked investors growing increasingly unhappy at signs the global economy is slowing. Economists blamed the disappointing figures in part on the impact of Japan's March 11 earthquake-tsunami disaster on US manufacturers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... showed the current account deficit widened in the March quarter to $10.447 billion, driven by a big drop in exports. Economists say the widening of the trade gap will strip 2.4 percentage points from economic growth for the quarter, the biggest single-quarter ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... stripes. "... the size of this fall (in house prices) was mainly due to the flood-induced 1.4 per cent drop in January." "Economists say that unlike the downturn of the 1990s, the effect of this one will be erased quickly as Australia rebounds from the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... people might be willing to spend more. Both personal income and spending rose 0.4 per cent in April, in line with what economists expected, according to the Commerce Department. Still, higher prices for food and gas ate up most of the gains in income. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... usually an indicator of trends in both the construction industry and the real estate market, was still quite grim, economists said. Chevron and ConocoPhillips shares both picked up 0.8 per cent, while Hess added 1.6 per cent and Marathon 2.8 per cent. ...

Don't blame China for inflation: AllianceBernstein

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... producers into the global economy. That has a direct impact on prices for emerging markets," said Bruten. Overall, the economists noted that upward pressure on commodity prices and rising nominal exchange rates is reducing the impact of emerging market ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... March. The April figure is lower than even the lowest estimate (54.5 to 59) found by Bloomberg in its survey of 73 economists. There were also falls in the index's sub-components too. For instance, the new orders component dropped to 52.7 in April from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... on Wednesday. Stocks fell after payroll processor ADP said companies added 179,000 new jobs in April, far fewer than economists had expected. That raised worries about what the government's monthly jobs report for April will reveal when it's released ...