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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... Friday following its biggest one-day percentage fall in two months after across-the-board losses driven by falls in commodities prices. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropped below the psychologically significant 4,600 point mark, falling 103.7 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... stable and low-risk" banking systems. The report drove the US dollar higher as investors sought safety. That sent some commodities prices lower, hurting materials stocks. The S&P report was yet another worry for investors who have been focused on politics ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... week, and last night commodity prices were heavily hit, but our market is holding up very well with regards to bulk commodities." BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Woodside Petroleum are holding the market up, Ms Chan said. At 1207 AEDT, BHP Billiton was 18 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... lending to rein in inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell two per cent and the FTSE slumped 1.58 per cent. Commodities including oil, copper and gold also fell.

CFS signs distribution deal with Aspect

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... provide consistent returns across more than 100 international futures markets in cash, bonds, equities, currencies and commodities. Brian Bissaker, chief executive at Colonial First State, said the firm plans to launch an Aspect Capital fund on the FirstChoice ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... Heffernan said. "I think it's very impressive that, despite a one per cent-plus fall in the American market and soft commodities, that our market is only down 0.4 per cent in the middle of the day after being down about 0.8 per cent at the start of the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
Australian shares are likely to open lower after global equity markets and commodities slumped overnight on concerns that the economic recovery will take longer than hoped to take hold. At 0830 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... results out of the US, particularly the results from JPMorgan which indicated consumer debt issues," Mr Hancock said. "Commodities came down a little bit, between 0.6 per cent and 1.5 per cent. They've had a pretty good run and volumes are still holding ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... could take the winds out of the sails of the global recovery and remove the impetus for further gains in equities, commodities and commodity-based currencies. Fears of a sharp slowdown in China are unfounded and premature at best. It is unfounded because ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... "What cast a bit of a pall over the market certainly at the open was no positive lead from around the world or from commodities, as well as the downgrade from WorleyParsons," Austock Securities senior client adviser, Michael Heffernan, said. In news ...