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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... cent) to 12,573.27 points. The S&P 500 fell 6.69 points (0.50 per cent) to 1,334.76. Earlier in the day the Labour Department reported 350,000 initial jobless claims were filed in the holiday-shortened week ending July 7. That was a decrease of 26,000 ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... Wall Street's reaction to it. The S&P 500 fell by 0.94%, the Dow by 0.96% and the Nasdaq by 1.30% the day the US Labor Department released its latest update on the state of the jobs market -- for they all saw that it wasn't good. Employment increased ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... (0.78 per cent) to 1,356.89, while the tech-rich Nasdaq dropped 19.23 points (0.65 per cent) to 2,956.89. The Labor Department said the economy generated only a net 80,000 new jobs in June, leaving the unemployment rate at 8.2 per cent. LONDON - European ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 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

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... Rinehart's bid for seats on the company's board was rejected. David Jones shares shot up 15 per cent to $2.60 after the department store chain received a takeover offer from a mystery entity in the United Kingdom. In the resources sector, global miner ...

Uncle Ben to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... US economic growth, Uncle Ben would surely be concerned over some of the reports released last night. The Commerce Department reported that housing starts dropped to an annual rate of 708,000 units - lagging market expectations by 12,000 houses. The ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... Institute Leading Indexes of Economic Activity Meanwhile, the Reserve Banks of Australia's (RBA) head of payments policy department, Tony Richards, to scheduled to address the Australian Banking and Finance Retail Financial Services Forum 2012 in Sydney. ...

Pool local govt infra projects to attract investors: E&Y

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... investments at the local government level," he said. "The national financing authority is a means to pool local government department and encourage more borrowing by local government. "Then they would be able to offer that into the market place by packaging ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... cent, to $21.26. Telstra's stock was steady at $3.66. Consumer staples and discretionary stocks also bounced, with department store owner Myer Holdings up two cents, or 1.09 per cent, to $1.86 and Billabong surging 5.5 cents, or 3.06 per cent, to $1.855. ...

Still a guessing game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... - for instance: 6:07 AM (AEST): "The S&P 500 extended its slump to a level considered a "correction" after Commerce Department data showed US factory bookings unexpectedly slid 0.6 percent in April to mark the first back-to-back declines in more than ...