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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... total employment to have risen by 20,000, with unemployment steady at five per cent, according to the median of 11 economists survey by AAP. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said the local currency lost value following the data's release. "The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... central bank is expected to cut the OCR to 2.5 percent from 3 percent tomorrow because of the Christchurch earthquake but economists are divided on the need for such a move. Profit-taking took its toll on Fletcher Building, which eased 6c to 878.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... reported on Wednesday that home loans approved in January had fallen 4.5 per cent, to a seasonally adjusted 48,871. Economists' forecasts had centred on a 0.5 per cent rise in housing finance commitments for the month. Royal Bank of Scotland foreign ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... rate will be cut by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand on Thursday, making investments in shares more attractive. Many economists are expecting the Reserve Bank will cut the OCR from three per cent to 2.5 per cent on Thursday, and today Prime Minister John ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... of $1.875 billion in January, seasonally adjusted, from an upwardly revised surplus of $2.018 billion in December. Economists' forecasts had centred on a surplus of $1.65 billion in the month. During the month, exports were down 4.0 per cent in adjusted ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... per cent increase in job creation from January -- to 217,000 jobs -- much better than the hiring slowdown expected by economists. The US jobs figure failed to pull European markets back into positive territory. Lisbon ended off 0.18 per cent, Swiss stocks ...

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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... remains volatile, China is reportedly targeting growth of only 7.0 per cent for the next five years (oh my, don't most economists - excluding us - claim that China needs to grow no slower than 8.0 per cent or there'll be social unrest?); Ireland's main ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... quarter after falling 0.9 per cent in the September quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said on Monday. Economists were expecting inventories to have risen by 0.5 per cent in the December quarter. The estimate of income from sales by manufacturers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... straight month in January, but the increase was the smallest since June. Retail sales rose just 0.3 per cent, half of what economists had predicted. Kim Caughey Forrest, equity research analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group, said higher prices for petrol ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... consensus estimate of flat output on the month and an 8.1 per cent increase on the year in a Dow Jones Newswires survey of economists. Elsewhere in Europe the markets were also searching for strong signals. The Lisbon bourse was the biggest climber ...