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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... 605,000 analysts were expecting. Some of the improvement was due to changes in the timing of auto industry layoffs and the holiday-shortened week, however. In other economic data, the Commerce Department said wholesale inventories fell for a ninth straight ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
Sales of Bud (Budweiser) would have picked up during the weekend's 4th of July holiday in the US. Half would have downed the 'Great American Lager' in celebration of the June quarter surge on the Street. The other half - those looking at the week's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... trade on the Eurpean and Asian markets, no direction from Wall Street, which was closed on Friday for the July 4 public holiday. At 0732 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was seven points lower at 3,774. In ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... director at EL&C Baillieu Stockbroking, Richard Morrow, said a poor lead from Wall Street and the impending Independence Day holiday in the US had helped push the Australian bourse down. "The market is very, very soggy today," Mr Morrow said. "There ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... The benchmark Nikkei-225 index lost 18.51 points, or 0.19 per cent, at 9,939.93 points. HONG KONG - Closed for a public holiday. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket closed lower, reflecting weakness in offshore markets. The benchmark NZSX-50 ended ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... Index closed down 426.14 points at 18,253.39. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket slipped in trading reduced by a holiday in Australia. The benchmark NZSX-50 index closed down 17.89 points, or 0.63 per cent, at 2816.62.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... consumer confidence by a Conference Board survey buoyed hopes of economic recovery. Resuming trade after the Memorial Day holiday, stocks had come under early pressure as geopolitical unease in Asia over North Korea's nuclear and missile tests dampened ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was marginally higher at noon on Tuesday, after a quiet morning of trade following public holidays in the US and the UK. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up two points, or 0.05 per cent, at 3,739.9, while ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... Ordinaries index lost 20.1 points, or 0.54 per cent, to 3,735.3. NEW YORK - Wall Street was closed for the Memorial Day holiday. LONDON - London markets were closed for a bank holiday. FRANKFURT - European stock markets were little changed in thin trading ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Bank had fallen 15 cents to $21.61 at 1203 AEST. The local market will have no lead for trading on Tuesday, with a bank holiday in the UK and Memorial Day in the US overnight, Mr Taylor said. "We're having a very quiet start to the week," he said. At ...