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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... Financial shares led the losses in the S&P. An index of national manufacturing activity from the Institute for Supply Management fell in February, but the decline was not as steep as economists' forecasts. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 53.24 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... financial services stocks lost heavily on worry that the service-sector slowdown portrayed in the Institute for Supply Management data would crimp demand for loans and capital investment. At mid-afternoon, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 252.00 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... worries about the profit outlook. Shares of industrial companies dragged on the market after the Institute for Supply Management said its index showed factory activity in November fell to its lowest since January, driving down shares of such bellwethers ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2007
... Technologies Corp propelled the increases in the Dow industrials after an unexpected rise in the Institute for Supply Management's factory index to its highest level in more than a year. Takeover activity included Canada's largest telephone company ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... stock buyback and trimmed expansion plans. A government report on job creation in May and the Institute for Supply Management's gauge of US manufacturing activity both beat forecasts and underpinned the market. But while the data increased optimism about ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
... the building materials firm. The FTSE 100 ended 53.3 points higher at 6,537.8 as data from the Institute for Supply Management showed the U.S. services sector had expanded at a greater-than-expected rate in April. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 7,476.69 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
... Big-cap manufacturers, including Honeywell and Caterpillar, traded higher following data from the Institute for Supply Management showing national factory activity in April rose to the highest in nearly a year and above economists' median forecast. The ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... slightly at 0.7 per cent following the fall of 4.7 per cent that occurred last month. However, the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index decreased from 52.3 to 50.9 indicating that sentiment in that industry is still fickle. The index ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... However this must be weighed against the news from the manufacturing sector which according to the Institute for Supply Management surveys had its index fall to 49.5 whereas that for the non-manufacturing index rose to 58.9. Scores above 50 indicate ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... that most have been expecting is showing signs of being a little harder than anticipated. The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index decreased from 51.2 to 49.9 points in November suggesting a period of contraction is ahead as the score ...