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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
The Australian sharemarket has opened one per cent lower as investors reacted to weak US jobs figures released at the start of easter break. At 1016 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 40.1 points, or 0.93 per cent, at 4,279.7 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... points (1.14 per cent) to 1,382.20, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 33.42 points (1.08 per cent) to 3,047.08. The weak US jobs report raised speculation that the Federal Reserve may yet have to apply fresh stimulus to juice growth. LONDON - Many ...

Dead calm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
This morning I woke up to Reuter's headline screaming, "Stocks slide on weak US growth data" and Bloomberg's "European Stocks Drop as Euro Area Borrowing Costs Rise; Commerzbank Slumps". What could have scared the equities markets off again this time ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
Australian shares were higher at noon, bucking a weak US lead as investors took heart in a plan to recapitalise ailing European banks to help contain the impact of the eurozone debt crisis. The local market took less than half an hour to move into positive ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... suggesting Australia's economy was going through a soft patch. But he said falls in all stocks except for gold were based on a weak US lead after its worst employment report in 11 months was released after the local market closed on Friday. "The price ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... than 13 to one. Macquarie Private Wealth associate director Lucinda Chan said the worry on the market was the prospect of weak US and European economies hitting Australia's key export markets in Asia. "It is all about us being interconnected in so many ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... fears the world was heading towards another financial crisis. Already-fragile investor confidence was hammered by more weak US economic data and a warning from the head of the European Commission that the eurozone debt crisis had likely spread to other ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... results. On Wednesday, the Australian share market fell to its lowest point in almost a year as investors fretted over the weak US economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 100.8 points, or 2.27 per cent, to 4,332.8, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... was over one US cent lower on Wednesday after the central bank kept the cash rates on hold on Tuesday and the release of weak US economic data overnight. At 0700 (AEST), the Australian dollar was trading at 107.80 US cents, down from 108.90 cents on ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... is little at the moment to pin a positive market performance onto," he said. "There's talk of higher interest rates, a weak US economy, carbon tax... and with continued negative news from Europe, there's not much to be positive about." In economics news ...