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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
The Australian share market was up about half a per cent at noon, buoyed by rising banking stocks. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 22.7 points, or 0.51 per cent, at 4,508.8 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... tumbled 261.41 points (2.52 per cent) to finish at 10,097.90. All 30 of the Dow's blue-chip stocks closed in the red. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index dropped 70.03 points (3.11 per cent) to 2,179.05 while the broad-market S&P 500 index shed 31.60 ...

Goldman Sachs pay $620m to settle SEC lawsuit

SEC RELEASE, BLOOMBERG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... settlement is a stark lesson to Wall Street firms that no product is too complex, and no investor too sophisticated, to avoid a heavy price if a firm violates the fundamental principles of honest treatment and fair dealing," he said. Around $280 million ...

Market Wrap - Mid-Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... Wall Street overnight, the Dow Jones industrials climbed back above 10,000 after investors had second thoughts about the heavy selling in the stock market during the last two weeks. The Dow rose 274.66, or 2.8 per cent, to 10,018.28. The Standard & Poor's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... points, or 1.05 per cent, to 4,324.76. NEW YORK - The US stock market ended a painful second quarter that left investors with heavy losses and far more doubts about the economy than they had just months ago. Traders who took a bleaker view of the economy ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
The Australian share market improved slightly by noon but remained sharply lower, with heavy losses in all sectors. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 75.6 points, or 1.74 per cent, at 4,270.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... have followed." Mr Potter said Australian banks faced their own challenges, with fears of a housing bubble in Australia and heavy exposure to the mortgage sector. The big four banks were in the red all morning, with NAB down 40 cents at $23.98, Westpac ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... 80 days the tablet computers were on sale in the US. The stock rose 1.4 per cent and helped limit the losses in the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index. The selling intensified shortly before 2pm Eastern time (0400 AEST), when the benchmark Standard & ...

IQ Business grows 20pc due to Cooper Review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... administration providers such as Superpartners and AAS and, separately, insurance and banking clients. "We get in and do the heavy lifting instead of doing the strategy work and printing documents that are shelved," he said. "We get involved in some ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... or 0.98 per cent, at 3,380.36 points. TOKYO - Japanese shares ended mixed as cautious investors sought bargains following heavy falls the previous day, analysts said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's headline Nikkei index ended up 17.14 points, or 0.18 per ...