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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... 203.52 points, or 2.03 per cent. Ms Saly said the focus was on banking stocks, after better than expected news from the US banks and good quarterly results from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia on Monday. "There is a lot of momentum and money coming ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... still job prospects to worry about, credit is still hard to come by as lending standards are tightened, lesser-known US banks are still closing shop, US homes are still being foreclosed. And the little income that American consumers earn is being saved ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... been very strong over the last few weeks on the back of some strong earnings reports out of the UK banks and also the US banks, so perhaps the worst (of the recession) has passed."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... soared, spurred on by the financial sector, as investors awaited quarterly earnings reports from government-assisted US banks that could signal the economy is on the road to recovery. The London FTSE 100 index rose 74.96 points, or 1.82 per cent, to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... cent gain. Financial stocks were hit after Standard & Poor's lowered its credit rating and revised the outlook on 22 US banks, citing market volatility and tighter regulatory supervision. President Obama also unveiled wide financial regulatory reform ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... 3.29 points, 0.35 per cent, to a preliminary close of 942.43. The market reacted cooly to a decision allowing ten major US banks to repay the Treasury $US68 billion for capital injections made to stabilise the financial system. Analysts had seen this ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... banks pushed the Australian share market slightly higher at noon, after the United States Federal Reserve said major US banks that were ordered to raise capital had developed sufficient plans. Many of the resource stocks, including Australia's biggest ...

It's all about China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... The US needs China to keep on buying the government debt which the American government bought and/or guaranteed from US banks and financial institutions and car companies. So off to China US Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner went to assure the Chinese ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... report from home improvement chain Lowe's, an uptick in homebuilder sentiment and positive comments from analysts about US banks.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... better-than-expected profit report from Lowe's Cos, an uptick in homebuilder sentiment and positive comments from analysts about US banks revived investors' confidence in an economic rebound. The Dow rose 235.44, or 2.9 per cent, to settle at 8,504.08. ...