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This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
Macroeconomic indicators set for release this week are not expected to deviate from the ongoing global theme of slowing growth and higher inflation. Australia Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Glenn Stevens address on the "Challenges for Economic ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
More signs that US problems have made their way into the UK came overnight. After signaling in recent weeks that it is more likely to follow the European Central Bank (ECB) and tighten monetary policy rather than ease, the Bank of England (BoE) succumbed ...

Global LPT defies credit gloom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... demand for capital in Asian and European markets. "While the sub prime issue has had its greatest impact on the US homebuilder sector, mortgage REITs and collaterised debt obligation (CDO) markets, it had not dampened growth expectations for the world's ...

From rooster to feather duster

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
What a difference a week can make. A little more than a week after the Dow Jones average hit a record high, on Thursday the share market began a backward landslide. Global equity markets took another hit on Friday night on the back of the US sub-prime ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2006
... while the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 18.99 points to 2,262.58. LONDON - UK stocks ended slightly higher, led by homebuilder Persimmon on optimism about the sector outlook, although more losses for oil major Royal Dutch Shell after its results kept ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2005
... rates. The Fed official's remarks particularly hurt interest-rate sensitive stocks such as Countrywide Financial and homebuilder Lennar. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 94.37 points to 10,441.11. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 12.23 ...

NAB's economic report cites RBA's leaning towards neutral interest rates

... 2002. Business inventories rose 0.3% and sales rose 0.6%. The inventories to sales ratio remained at a record low. Homebuilder optimism eased a touch in November but was still close to four-year highs. The report also indicated that the Eurozone's third ...
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