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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Australian stocks will continue to climb in early trading, if the Futures are a guide, buoyed by stronger international markets and shaking off yesterday's interest rate rise. At 0752 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index ...

Rate hike to launch dollar?

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... month ago, NabCapital believes that if risk-appetite recovers, this wider yield advantage would be consistent with AUD/USD trading up to around 0.8750. Jim Stening, Managing Director of fixed income specialist FIIG Securities said this mornings RBA decision ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... Nikkei average ended flat as software firm Trend Micro surged on a better forecast, but a drop in crude oil prices hit trading house Mitsubishi and other energy-related stocks. The Nikkei inched up 0.04 per cent or 7.31 points at 16,921.77. HONG KONG ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... should push local stocks into positive territory today, helping the market claw back some of the heavy losses suffered in trading yesterday. At 0718 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index was up 102 points to 5,995 on a ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
... of our earnings season, I think we'll see plenty of volatility in the market," he said. Despite a slump in early local trading, mining giant Rio Tinto had made up ground by lunchtime today following its announcement yesterday of a fall in first half ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... added 45 cents to $37.53, ANZ was 27 cents higher to $27.79 and Westpac gained 23 cents to $25.78. In the final minutes of trading overnight, the Dow shot up around 180 points, then trimmed a modest slice off that to close up more than one per cent. ...

Sub-prime contamination causes market carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... its staff bonuses, is the third Australian fund to flag losses on the back of a US credit market dry-up. Mac shares were trading down 7.5 per cent at $76.29 by early afternoon, their biggest one-day fall in five years and slicing $1.7 billion from the ...

CBA launches $370m IWL offer

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... Implementation Deed to acquire all of IWL for approximately $373 million, or $6.57 a share. Shares in IWL are currently trading at around $6.50 after a sharp rise in today's trade. CBA group executive, premium business services, Stuart Grimshaw, said ...

Water's potential to float

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... private assets, investment into recycling and desalination plants and the potential for a credit system similar to carbon trading.

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... that. "People are still going to go to Coles and Woolworths no matter what the market is doing." The major miners all were trading higher after metals prices rose on the London Metal Exchange overnight. The world's biggest miner, BHP Billiton, had gained ...