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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... the third straight month in August. Home prices fell 11.4 per cent from a year earlier, which was a smaller drop than economists predicted. The year-over-year fall has slowed since February, indicating the housing market is stabilising. Investor sentiment ...

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... Statistics releases lending finance data for August. Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan will address the Australian Business Economists with a speech entitled, "Evaluating domestic fiscal policy during a global recession". In equities news, The Australian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... August and ABS building approvals data for August will be released. In Adelaide, the 38th Australian Conference of Economists continues. In company news, Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Ralph Norris addresses the Trans-Tasman Business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
... Board's index of leading economic indicators increased 0.6 per cent in August, just shy of the 0.7 per cent increase economists expected. It was the fifth straight month the index rose. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 41.34, or 0.4 per cent, to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... product for first three months of next year to five per cent from three per cent. GDP has been shrinking, although many economists think it will return to growth for the July-September quarter. Meanwhile, Procter & Gamble Co pulled the Dow higher after ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... showing robust growth in US industrial production boosted sentiment and propelled the main indexes to new 11-month highs. Economists said a jump in US industrial production of 0.8 per cent in August, the second straight monthly gain, supports the view ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... in July. The increase initially spooked the market, but stocks later recovered their losses and moved higher. Many economists expect the rate to top 10 per cent by early next year. Rising unemployment is widely seen as the economy's biggest hurdle to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... Friday (0000 AEST). The biggest gains came in the final half-hour as some traders looked to buy ahead of the jobs data. Economists expect the unemployment rate to edge up to 9.5 per cent from 9.4 per cent, while the number of layoffs is expected to slow ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... government said new claims for unemployment benefits fell to 550,000 last week, from a revised 588,000 the previous week. Economists had been looking for 580,000 new claims. There also was sobering news: The number of people continuing to claim benefits ...