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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... 2,866.02 as investors continued to fret about possible new monetary tightening measures. Tokyo was closed for a national holiday. In other markets, Singapore closed 1.26 per cent lower, Taipei was flat, Manila fell 0.49 per cent, Jakarta was flat, Kuala ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... stock markets ended mixed on Tuesday, with London shares posting a late rally to end the first day following a four-day holiday with a small gain. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index ended the day up 0.21 percent at 6,082.88 points. The market was closed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... Madrid was off 0.02 percent and Milan dipped 0.09 percent. Brussels was unchanged. Markets in London were closed for a bank holiday. Analysts said the markets had been buoyed by the assassination of Osama bin Laden, but that effect may be short-lived. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... topping the 7500 mark for the first time since early 2008, though London's FTSE index was closed for Britain's royal wedding holiday. The Dax finished the day at 7514.46 points, a gain of 0.52 per cent over Thursday's close. Meanwhile in Paris the CAC ...

Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
1.00,1.03,1.05,1.08,1.10,1.20 - no these are not random numbers. These are the numbers marking the Australian dollar's recorded fresh - and fresher - after-float highs against its big brother, the US dollar. The last time I wrote about the value of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... markets were somewhat subdued ahead of first-quarter economic growth figures in the United States and a royal wedding holiday in Britain. US growth figures showed a sharp deceleration in the first quarter to a 1.8 per cent pace as governments slashed ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
The Australian share market was almost half a per cent stronger at noon, trading off its highs of the session as traders digested a new high for the Australian dollar and what it means for stocks and interest rates. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Any which way is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Aren't we, Australians all, just lucky? We come back from loooong holiday and then wake up to another big move higher on Wall Street. If we, Australians all, came back to work a day earlier we would have felt differently about today for apart from watching ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... mega-takeover bid involving the dairy products industry, at the start of a shortened trading week after the long Easter holiday weekend. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index gained 0.85 per cent to finish at 6,069.36 points, also boosted by encouraging ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... Dow blue chips Intel, IBM and United Technologies, and from internet giant Yahoo!, helped to ignite buying in the Easter holiday-shortened week. The markets will be closed on Friday. The S&P 500 index, a broader measure of the markets, advanced 17.74 ...