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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... (ABS) showed the economy lost 9,700 jobs in the month, which pushed both broad-market indices dipped into the negative territory just before noon AEST. "People thought the jobless rate would stay stable at 5.1 per cent," RBS Morgans private client adviser ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... 3.6 per cent, Citigroup off 2.5 per cent and JPMorgan Chase down 3.4 per cent. Bond prices, after flirting with record territory, pared their gains but still ended up higher than last week's levels. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note dropped to 1.98 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... Germany, the Netherlands and Austria posted manufacturing growth, with France, Italy and Spain slumping into negative territory. British manufacturing tumbled to a 26-month low of 49.0 points in August, although that beat market expectations for a reading ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Wednesday closed slightly higher, with late gains in financial and mining stocks helping the bourse out of earlier negative territory. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 27.3 points, or 0.64 per cent, at 4,296.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... volume of 17,882 contracts. It was an up-and-down start on the local market, with stocks drifting in and out of positive territory during the morning, amid low turnover. Macquarie Private Wealth division director Lucinda Chan said investors were holding ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... to remain fairly steady. "I suspect it'll trade within a narrow band and it looks as though it will hold in positive territory for the rest of the day." Making news on Wednesday, at 1200 AEST, Westfield Group shares lost 18 cents to $7.96 after posting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... higher on Friday as trade calmed at the end of one of the most turbulent weeks on record. Wall Street stayed in positive territory all day after a week characterised by sudden 400-point swings and daily losses and gains of about five per cent. Mr Burrowes ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... credit-rating downgrade. "There's certainly going to be negative sentiment and we're likely to be in strongly negative territory," Mr McCarthy said. "In essence, there's still a lot of fear in the market... Some of those French banks were down more than ...

Stocks rally hard as Australia deemed a bargain buy

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... change of sentiment at midday brought equities roaring back, adding $55 billion worth of gains to close in positive territory with the S&P/ASX 200 closing at 4034.8, up 1.2% on the day. William Keenan, senior equity strategist for research house Lonsec ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... 500 6.7 per cent, and the Nasdaq 6.9 per cent. The surge came in the last hour, with the Dow 150 points in negative territory 45 minutes before the close. It followed an announcement by the Federal Reserve that it expected to maintain interest rates ...