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Midday Market Wrap: Dollar, bonds weaker at noon

... trade since Hussein's capture made the news late last night. The US stockmarket trades tonight. On Wall Street on Friday, stocks rose, extending the blue-chip Dow's 18-month high closes, as positive profit forecasts from United Technologies Corp and ...

Morning Market Wrap: US dollar strong following Hussein capture

... to fade relatively quickly and that the Australian dollar could soon climb back up above the US 74 cent mark. Australian stocks are likely to surge, buoyed by gains in overseas markets. The Australian market will be one of the first in the world to trade ...

Midday Market Wrap: Market lower at noon

... one point stronger at 3208 - a 0.9 point discount to the underlying index - on a volume of 3580 contracts. In New York, stocks fell overnight as investors took profits after the market recently topped the 10,000 level. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Midday Market Wrap: Stocks weaker at noon

... positive which is reflected today; the US is down but our market doesn't want to go down." In the United States overnight, stocks fell after the Federal Reserve kept official interest rates at one per cent - a 45-year low - and the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Midday Market Wrap: Market lower at noon

... - a 5.1 point premium to the underlying index - on a volume of 6764 contracts. Stronger banks offset a decline in media stocks while the resource sector was mixed. "All in all it seems to be a bit of a case of some fairly lukewarm trading on the market ...

Afternoon market wrap: shares dip lower

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2003
... four per cent next year. The RBA had expected GDP growth of 3.0 per cent earlier in the year. On Wall Street on Friday, stocks fell after a report showing surprisingly soft US jobs growth and a disappointing outlook from Intel Corp curbed optimism over ...

ICAP economists say interest rate hike is unwarranted

... non-farm inventories (contributing 1.2% to GDP over the past year) will at some stage over coming quarters will see the stocks level pared back to normal levels, and this will detract around one percentage point from growth. ICAP economists also said ...

CommSec launches company stress test for investors

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2003
... gives companies a percentage rating showing how financially stressed they really are. "It allows investors to weed out stocks that are living at the edge," CommSec portfolio analyst Andrew McGregor said. Mr McGregor said investors can use the FSI like ...

Afternoon market wrap: Shares up as investors defy RBA rate hike

WITH AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2003
... Klusman said the banks had led the market, continuing from their rally yesterday, having been ably assisted by resources stocks. "Resources have been supported but the banks were the big runners because they don't perceive another rate rise until February," ...

Midday Market Wrap: Banking sector boosts market

... for some time, so that will be the next barrier once it hits 10,000 to see how the markets react," he said. On Wall St, stocks initially surged to fresh year highs after data showed the US economy was strengthening, before retreating as investors took ...