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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... Friday's local close of $US1,837.10. Trading volumes were also weak, as Monday is a Labor day public holiday in the United States, he said. Making news on Monday, Australia's largest rail freight operator QR National rose two cents to $3.28 after it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... around the world was mixed on Thursday, but reflected softness in manufacturing and in the US labour market. In the United States, the Institute for Supply Management put the reading for its monthly manufacturing survey at 50.6 per cent, lower than in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... volatile month in which markets were rattled by the debt-ceiling mess in Washington, Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States, fears of a new recession and Europe's sovereign debt crisis. "It was a very bad month, you want to forget it as quickly ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... choppiness we saw last week." Wall Street lost four per cent overnight on new worries about a second recession in the United States and Europe, prompted by an investment bank report and poor economic data from the US. Fears about the liquidity of european ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... had forecast. Mr Jukes said a report by Morgan Stanley had only fuelled worries about a second recession in the United States and Europe, sending US stocks into a tailspin. The report said the US and Europe were dangerously close to recession, blaming ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... exports in FY2010/11; Japan, 19.1%; South Korea, 9.2%; India, 6.4%; Taiwan, 3.7%. During the past fiscal year, the United States accounted for only 3.7% of Australia's total export shipments - almost half of what it was only five years ago. Exports to ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... promised new measures to slash France's public deficit amid fears that France could be the next country after the United States to suffer a top credit-rating downgrade. "There's certainly going to be negative sentiment and we're likely to be in strongly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... five per cent on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing 634 points, after Standard & Poor's dealt the United States an unprecedented downgrade. The Dow was down 5.6 per cent to finish at 10,809.85, its lowest close since last October. It ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
The Australian share market had clawed back some losses at noon after Standard and Poor's downgraded the United States credit rating for the first time in history over the weekend. After plunging four per cent on Friday, the local bourse was down more ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... after the downgrade. "China, the largest creditor of the world's sole superpower, has every right now to demand the United States address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China's dollar assets," China's official Xinhua news agency ...