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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... and the all ordinaries 10.6 points stronger at 5409.2. NEW YORK - US stocks ended higher on Friday as sharply lower oil prices and strong profits from AIG outweighed investors' worries that Walt Disney Co. may struggle to sustain earnings momentum. The ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... Average Index has risen to its highest level since January 2000 as the US market absorbs the positive impact of lower oil prices and the reduced threat of harsher interest rates. The consumer side of the economy as measured by the housing industry continues ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
... up retail shares such as Home Depot Inc and industrial stocks such as Boeing Co and Caterpillar Inc on hopes lower oil prices would dissuade the Federal Reserve from resuming its campaign of interest-rate increases. The Dow Jones industrial average rose ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
... share market is expected to open higher on a positive lead from Wall Street after the seventh straight day of lower oil prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 39 points to 5005 at 0722 AEST. Today, Harvey ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2006
... Index climbed closed up 11.60 points at 2,172.30. LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 index ended higher, supported by lower oil prices and by banks as consolidation talk persisted around the sector. The FTSE 100 index of the UK's leading shares ended up 9.7 ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... points, up 68.09, or 1.35 per cent. TOKYO - The Nikkei average fell 0.26 per cent as energy stocks dropped on lower oil prices, but Credit Saison and other consumer loan firms rose on a news report of a possible rate cap exemption. The Nikkei was down ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
... eased slightly. Strong earnings from US drug companies pushed Wall Street higher, supporting European gains, and lower oil prices added a further prop, having hit record levels earlier this month on fears fighting between Israel and Hizbollah could spread. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2006
... Nikkei average fell nearly two per cent to close below 16,000 for the first time in more than two months, as lower oil prices sent resource-related shares lower. The Nikkei average lost 297.58 points to 15,857.87, closing below 16,000 for the first time ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2006
... Nasdaq Composite Index was down 22.52 points at 2284.66. LONDON - British shares shed almost 1.5 per cent, with lower oil prices knocking oil heavyweights and analysts forecasting a gloomy outlook for Vodafone and Alliance & Leicester. The FTSE 100 closed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2004
... United States opens the door for further domestic gains. US stocks rallied on Friday as strong economic data, lower oil prices and an optimistic outlook from Intel helped lifted stocks on all three indices. At the close on Friday, the US Dow Jones industrial ...
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