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Market Wrap early AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... Shanghai was ended 0.14 per cent, or 3.02 points, lower at 2,114.03. Traders were given a bright lead after the US Labour Department said on Friday that the economy created 171,000 jobs in October, far more than the expected 125,000. WELLINGTON - The ...

Sandy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... to growth. This looks achievable especially if the latest uptrend in US consumer spending continues. The US Commerce Department reports that household expenditure - that which accounts for 70% of the economy - rose by 0.8% in September following a 0.5% ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia's trading session had already called it off for the week when the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the better-than-expected scorecard for the economy. But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better ...

High frequency trading benefits: UK government

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... believe that algorithmic trading is impacting the fairness and transparency of the market. However, research by the UK's Department for Business, Innovation & Skills could find no direct evidence that automated trading leads to increased volatility or ...

Job cuts at PIS

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Professional Investment Services has announced structural changes that will see management roles cut. Chief executive Peter Walther in a statement said that while the changes were not motivated by cost cutting, nor were they based on performance of ...

Market wrap late PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... on Wall Street, which in turn helped the Australian equities market open stronger. The positive result from the US Department of Commerce helped the Dow Jones Industrial Average climb 95.38 points, or 0.72 per cent, to finish at 13,424.23. Meanwhile ...

Jingling bells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... September following an equally strong 1.2% gain in the previous month (revised from up 0.9%). According to the Commerce Department report, electronics and appliance stores (up 4.5%) contributed to last month's increase in spending, yes, that means iPhone5 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... the tech-rich Nasdaq lost 2.37 points (0.08 per cent) to 3,049.41. The market jumped from the opening after the Labor Department reported that weekly new claims for unemployment insurance fell sharply to their lowest in four and a half years, a good ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... 2008 - down 37.5% for the year. 8 July 2009. Olivier Blanchard, Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Research Department, predicted that, "our forecast for world output is for a decline of 1.4% in 2009 and for an increase of 2.5% for the world ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... (0.03 per cent) at 1,460.93, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite lost 13.27 (0.42 per cent) to 3,136.19. The US Labor Department data for September put the official jobless rate at 7.8 per cent, down from the previous 8.1 per cent and the lowest level ...