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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... Fletcher Building shares. On Tuesday, Fletcher Building hit a three-year high of 953 before plunging during the session to close down 14c at 938.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon on Tuesday, pulled back by mining and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 46 points, or 0.93 per cent, at 4,925.2 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had dropped ...

Liquidnet hits $2bn in Q1 trades

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Equities trading platform Liquidnet reports exchange of $2 billion in blocks of Australian equities in the first quarter of 2011, highlighting the increased appeal on 'dark pool' trading. During the three-month period Liquidnet traded $4.95 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... 24,303.07 and Seoul closed 0.26 per cent, or 5.58 points, lower at 2,122.39. Shanghai gave up 0.24 per cent, or 7.28 points, to close at 3,022.75. Japan's Nikkei fell after figures showed a steeper-than-expected 2.3 per cent fall in core machinery orders ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... was off three cents at $24.54. The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,471.80 an ounce, up $US5.42 from Friday's local close of $US1,466.38. Newcrest Mining was up 36 cents at $42.44, while Kingsgate Consolidated was up four cents at $8.98. The most ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... Brent North Sea crude for delivery in May rose as high as $US125.79 a barrel in London trading, up $US2.66 from Thursday's close, before falling back slightly. Elsewhere in Europe the bourses were also mainly up, with Milan the biggest gainer putting ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... earthquake 345 kilometres north-east of Tokyo and cut power to three nuclear plants overnight. But the Dow fought back to close down 17.26 points, by 0.14 per cent, at 12,409.49 points. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2.03 points, or 0.15 ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
Nothing seems to shake the optimism that's currently doing the rounds of the financial markets. Japan was again shaken by a strong aftershock but financial markets hardly stirred. AFP reports that, "A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake late hit the same ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
The Australian market has received mixed leads from offshore trading overnight. Wall Street ended slightly lower after recouping earlier losses, while European markets were lower and Asia was mixed. Oil and gold hit new highs. At 0722 AEST on the ASX ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... might not issue new passports, unemployment statistics would not published as scheduled, museums and national parks would close, and worse - piles of elephant manure might pile up in a National Zoo parking lot because workers can't ship it away for composting." ...