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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... European stock markets fell on news that euro zone private sector activity fell more sharply than expected in March, while in China manufacturing activity fell to a four-month low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day down 78.48 points (0.60 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... New Zealand dollar has held near a two-month low against the greenback after figures showed weak manufacturing sectors in China and the Euro-zone, eroding demand for commodity-linked assets.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... 83.74 Japanese yen from 83.68 yen. HONG KONG - Asian stocks were mostly lower, weighed down by concerns over a slowdown in China's economy, while oil prices edged back up after big falls in New York. Receding concerns over the eurozone debt crisis provided ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... 0.36 per cent, at 4,365.6. NEW YORK - US stocks have posted modest losses amid concerns about cooling economic growth in China and mixed data on the troubled US housing construction sector. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 68.94 points (0.52 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
The Australian share market has opened lower on concerns over a slowdown in China and despite a positive lead from Wall Street. At 1018 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 16.7 points, or 0.39 per cent, at 4,274.1, while the broader ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... finance minister resigned to prepare the socialist Pasok party for elections expected within two months. BEIJING - Police in China have held a Singaporean banker for two weeks without allowing her access to a lawyer after her client allegedly fled the ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... there was a collective recollection of the prospect of a Greek default, the European recession and contagion, a slowdown in China, surging oil prices and below trend world economic growth for the year overall. But as I claimed on this day exactly a week ...

What Wen wants, Wen gets, when Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... heart-stopping 0.3% last night. All because a succession of economic releases suggest that there's big trouble brewing in China. Hot on the heels of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's announcement lowering the government's economic growth target from 8.0% ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... is expected on Monday. In Australia, the market on Friday finished almost one per cent stronger after a sharp slowing in China's inflation rate boosted resources stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 41 points, or 0.98 per cent, at 4,212 points ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... Several European countries will record very weak outcomes, but the US economy is continuing a moderate expansion. Growth in China has moderated as was intended, but on most indicators remains quite robust overall. Conditions around other parts of Asia ...