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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... futures contract was 36 points higher at 4,417 points, with 6,459 contracts traded. Wall Street posted a slight gain overnight, boosted by news of a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Reactions were mixed to several pieces ...

Urbanisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... want but you know, and I know, and even your uncle's dog knows that 'twas just another ordinary day on equity markets overnight. Wall Street and Europe closed higher 'supposedly' because the Israelis and the Palestinians have agreed to stop bombing the ...

A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat following falls on Wall Street overnight after Hewlett-Packard reported a quarterly loss due in part to a massive writedown, offsetting fresh data signalling recovery in the housing market. At 0640 AEDT on ...

Fed money on the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
It's a good day in the markets overnight and this is because... Let me hear you say it... optimism on the fiscal cliff. Yes, that's it. Tomorrow, we'll just change the word 'optimism' to 'pessimism' should the tape tell a tale of woe. I could stop here ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... cents at $7.95, following downgrades by brokers this week, including Macquarie moving it to underperform from neutral. Overnight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 28.49 points (0.23 per cent) at 12,542.46. The broad-market S&P 500 lost 2.16 ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
The Australian market is more than three-quarters of a per cent lower after Wall Street plunged overnight. At 1023 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 36.7 points, or 0.84 per cent, at 4,351.7, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... price index futures contract was down six points at 4,383, with 11,833 contracts traded. Stocks on Wall Street fell overnight after news that manufacturing contracted for the first time in almost three years, raising concerns the United States has joined ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... The Australian market looks set to open higher despite strong falls on Tuesday and a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight amid concern about Greece's debt crisis and a US "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax hikes at year-end which threaten ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... on volume of 14,482 contracts. The Australian stock market was recording far heavier losses than expected, after flat overnight leads from offshore markets. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said he was not aware of any identifiable reason ...