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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
The Australian sharemarket has received mixed leads from overseas. The local market is expected to be buoyed by a strong lead from Wall Street overnight but dragged down by base metal prices which ended lower on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
Australian stocks were 2.8 per cent lower at noon on a shortened trading day as big falls in the price of oil and gold and weaker industrial metal prices hammered resources stocks. The financials sector also was weaker after speculation that top-three ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... light ahead of the Easter break, with no major company news expected. Gold and nickel exploraor Southern Cross Goldfields Ltd (ASX: SXG) lists on the Australian stock exchange today. In Melbourne, the Energy & Water Regulation 2008 conference comes to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Australian stocks remained firmly in the black at noon after the US Federal Reserve's 75 basis point interest-rate cut and solid results from two major investment banks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 156.1 points, or 3.07 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open sharply higher as Wall Street surged after The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) cut its main lending rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.25 per cent. At 0740 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

SecuritEase on the defense after Tricom fallout

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... last month, the broker announced it won't use SecuritEase and instead signed GBST under a three-year extended contract. In an ASX statement, David Fotheringham, Tolhurst's chief executive said that both Tolhurst and SecuritEase mutually acknowledged ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
The Australian share market was higher at noon, boosted by financials and the prospect of another interest rate cut in the United States later tonight. The Dow Jones industrial average made a late comeback overnight, which also bolstered the local bourse. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher according to the March SPI futures index, and after New York staged a late rally to come back from falls that followed the Bear Sterns fire sale. In London overnight, base metals were significantly ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Australian shares had fallen at noon to their lowest level in 18 months, led by financial stocks, on signs of a deepening in the global credit crisis. The US Federal Reserve cut its lending rate to financial institutions on Sunday to increase the cash ...

Sentiment sinks on floats

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... confidence, courtesy of the US-led sub-prime credit crisis has diminished corporate appetite for listing on the main board of the ASX. According to Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) latest survey of sharemarket floats, the number of business listings this ...