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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... hit a 23-month low versus the US dollar on poor US jobs data following weak economic news from China and the eurozone, traders say. Early losses deepened after the Labour Department said on Friday the US economy only added 69,000 jobs in May, pushing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... stocks have been hit a lot harder than the top 200 stocks," he said. "That's a sign of short-term trading interest - (traders) positioning themselves in the highly liquid stocks." Weaker materials stocks also dragged the market lower ahead of the release ...

ASIC sets sights on dark pools

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... enter the market in that clear a version," said Gibson. "The concern of what people call front-running by high frequency traders being able to see a sequence of orders and say there must be a larger order behind it is going to happen in the dark pools ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street with traders again looking to events across the Atlantic ahead of a long holiday weekend. At 0800 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down 13 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street with traders again looking to events across the Atlantic ahead of a long holiday weekend. At 0800 AEST on Monday, the June share price index futures contract was down ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... tech stocks hit the Nasdaq for a loss in the day. Despite one per cent-plus gains on major European bourses, New York traders held pat on tepid US data and a still-unclear picture for the eurozone. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Thursday rose 33.60 ...

Grexit sends investors running for bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... futures prices are higher after the former Greek prime minister's comments that the nation could exit the eurozone prompted traders to move to safe-haven investments. In his first interview since leaving office, former Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... smaller move today reflects the fact that we are taking account of what we had already done yesterday," Mr Spooner said. "Traders and investors are just taking a pause essentially, I think the selling is starting to dry up a little bit at this stage ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012
... mostly rebounded as G8 support for Greece to remain in the eurozone boosted sentiment after last week's sharp sell-off, traders say. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index closed up 0.70 per cent to 5,304.48 points on Monday after tumbling by five per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... seemed as though everything else fell. The Dow Jones industrial average has been in a slump over the past two weeks as traders saw an increasing risk that Greece could leave the euro, causing more disruptions in markets. Remember the go-go days of May ...