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Weekly economic round-up

The Australian market continued its record-breaking run last week supported by continued gains in commodity prices, good earnings news out of the United States and stronger conviction for steady domestic interest rates. Last week's rally took the S&P/ASX ...

Weekly economic round-up

Last week's Australian economic data releases were mainly second-tier but nonetheless gave further evidence that domestic monetary policy will remain on hold in the near term. For instance, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) lending finance ...

Weekly economic round-up

The Australian dollar's link to commodity prices remains intact. The local currency closed last week's trading at US75.55c - its highest level in a month on the back of the continued rally in commodity prices. Although softer at 351.8 points at the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2006
... inflation reading in a government report. LONDON - UK stocks unravelled some of their recent gains, dragging the FTSE 100 to a weekly loss for the first time in six weeks as the telecoms and drug sectors headed lower, while nerves over Iran's nuclear ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept domestic monetary policy unchanged following its Board meeting last week. The RBA last raised the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.5 per cent in March. Since then, indications that growth ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2005
... shares. But all three major indexes ended the week lower, with the Nasdaq snapping a seven-week streak of gains, its longest weekly winning streak in nearly six years. The week's losses pushed the blue-chip Dow average back down marginally for the year. ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

Last week's battery of domestic economic reports did nothing to alter the prevailing view over Australian monetary policy settings. If anything, they strengthened investors' conviction that local interest rates will remain steady at 5.5 per cent in ...

Market Wrap

... For the week, the Dow ended down 0.5 per cent, the S&P ended off 0.25 per cent and Nasdaq closed up 0.46 per cent. The weekly declines for the Dow and the S&P 500 put an end to five straight weeks of gains for the two gauges. LONDON - Britain's top shares ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

Australian financial markets produced a lacklustre performance last week as the US celebrated a Thanksgiving holiday-shortened week. Domestic trading activity was uneventful throughout the week with only the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) new ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2005
... gained 0.75 per cent, the S&P 1.10 per cent and the Nasdaq 1.12 per cent. LONDON - British shares rose to seal a fourth weekly gain in a row as record metal prices boosted mining stocks and consolidation hopes boosted property firms, including British ...