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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... Wall Street on Friday, where the Dow closed up 0.41 per cent thanks to an upward revision of the growth figure for the US economy in the last quarter of 2010. WELLINGTON - A rise in the price of Fletcher Building shares helped propel the New Zealand ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... its government was voted out mid-week, the stock markets held up relatively well. Dealers said figures showing the US economy grew 3.1 per cent in fourth quarter 2010, up from the previous estimate of 2.8 per cent, provided some reassurance for investors ...

Commodities rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... ISM manufacturing index further confirms the improving global outlook. This index is a good leading indicator of the US economy and had been in expansion territory (above 50) since August 2009. Purchasing managers indices in Asia and Europe have been ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... president of Gary Goldberg Financial Services. "I think the markets continue to focus on the underlying recovery of the US economy." Investors are turning their attention away from a long list of recent worries including high oil prices, violence in ...

Tightrope walker

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... the People's Bank of China (PBOC) had been tightening monetary policy in order to keep inflation under control. The US economy is not growing fast enough - and measured inflation has, thus far, remained benign - that the Fed's sticking to its very easy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... points lower at 4555.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 5.6 points down at 4638.4. NEW YORK - Signs that the US economy is improving helped investors put aside fears over Japan's nuclear crisis, if only temporarily. The Labor Department reported ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... ways. The ISM indices - manufacturing and non-manufacturing. These are reliable and good leading indicators of the US economy. Both have been flashing expansions for over a year and so have their respective employment components. The US Federal Reserve ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... Middle East and North African turmoil is still unfolding. But while, I admit, that this is a potential threat to the US economy, it would not derail the recovery - not as long as activity indicators continue to march onwards and upwards.

Market Wrap - Morning

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... On Thursday, the Australian sharemarket closed at a two-and-a-half-year high, propelled by signs of recovery in the US economy and positive company earnings reports. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 8.2 points, or 0.17 per cent, at 4,938.4 points. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... Beijing cannot afford to slow growth too sharply. They said sentiment has steadily improved recently on the view that the US economy is coming out of the doldrums and that the eurozone debt crisis will be resolved, with strong corporate results bolstering ...