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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... since July 2009, while Shanghai ended 1.79 per cent, or 44.54 points, lower at 2437.80. Tokyo was closed for a public holiday. Eurozone finance ministers said on Friday that they would delay until October a decision on eight billion euros of bailout ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... 1,749.16, with dealers playing catch up with heavy losses at the start of the week, when the KOSPI was closed for a public holiday. However, Hong Kong staged a late bargain-hunting rally to end slightly higher, adding 14.90 points to 19,045.44 while ...

Find me that silver bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... dropped by 2.3%. Wait till they read the Reuters report that around 82% of Uncle Sam's children plan to spend less this holiday season compared with last year. Is it any wonder then that end of 2011 targets for the S&P 500 are coming down too? Barclays ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... losses, while dealers were still jittery about the state of China's economy. Taipei, which was also closed on Monday for a holiday, tumbled 2.88 per cent, or 219.20 points, to end at 7,391.37. Hong Kong and Seoul were closed for the mid-autumn public ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street rebounded from early losses to finish up, despite European and Asian markets earlier closing lower. At 0712 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was up 41 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... 6.50 points (0.26 per cent) to 2,473.83. US stocks plunged more than two per cent after markets re-opened from a long holiday weekend with investors concerned that Greece would fail to meet debt-cutting goals and that Germany would drop support to the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... our view is that it will probably be pretty neutral," Mr Callow said. US markets were closed overnight due to a public holiday, so direction for currency markets came from Europe, where renewed jitters about sovereign debt issues in a number of Eurozone ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... open lower after European and Asian markets fell overnight. Wall Street was closed on Monday for the US Labor Day public holiday. At 0710 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was down 52 points at 4,093. In economic news ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... ounce, up $42.70 from Friday's local close of $US1,837.10. Trading volumes were also weak, as Monday is a Labor day public holiday in the United States, he said. Making news on Monday, Australia's largest rail freight operator QR National rose two cents ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... Australian dollar) is clearly under pressure with how things closed in New York on Friday," he said. "It is a US and Canadian holiday to start off the week, but I think that the risk-off scenario is going to see the Aussie dollar weaken further." Mr ...