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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... as a poor German government debt auction fuelled fears over Europe's fiscal crisis and weak growth in the eurozone, a major US trading partner. Markets spent the day stuck in negative territory after Germany was able to sell only part of an issue of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... It came after US stocks plunged on Monday amid renewed worries about the eurozone debt crisis, which claimed its first major US casualty -- a key brokerage that filed for bankruptcy. At 1210 on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 61 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... points. NEW YORK - US stocks plunged Monday amid renewed worries about the eurozone debt crisis, which claimed its first major US casualty -- a key brokerage that filed for bankruptcy. On the last day of trading in October, stocks were under pressure ...

Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... been bizarre for Wall Street too. It only gained 1% plus a few bips last night with the futures market showing the three major US indices - S&P 500, Dow Jones and the Nasdaq - now trading in the red. It's "just bizarre" for Wall Street to react this ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... Reserve's remake of the 1961 version of US President John F. Kennedy and the then Fed's attempt to salvage America. The major US equity indices fell big time - the Dow closed 2.5% off, the S&P ended 2.9% lower and the Nasdaq gave up 2.0% -- after Big ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... 305 unchanged. On Wall Street overnight, better-than-expected reports on home building and jobs pushed two of the three major US stock indexes higher. The pace of new home construction quickened last month and the number of people who applied for unemployment ...

Poor standard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... is only because the closing bell caught up with them. There was optimism in the air that given a few more minutes, the major US indices would have captured back all that they've given away yesterday... and then some." And it sure did recover, "and then ...

Thanks S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... is only because the closing bell caught up with them. There was optimism in the air that given a few more minutes, the major US indices would have captured back all that they've given away yesterday... and then some. Goes to show how big a deal was Standard ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... clock strikes midnight in Saudi Arabia and the dawn of 11 March. But before the first of the protesters could "rage", the major US equity indices slumped... big time. Falls of nearly 2.0 per cent overnight took the S&P 500, the Dow and the Nasdaq back ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... unrest and resurfacing euro-area debt concerns weighed on the market, which had risen strongly on Tuesday. There were no major US economic releases on the calendar to lure interest away from the intensifying unrest in the oil-producing Arab world. The ...