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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
Australian shares have fallen by 1.3 per cent due to negative offshore leads, with investors uncertain about a crucial vote on the Greek bailout package. The rally on global markets ended overnight amid doubts eurozone leaders were any closer to resolving ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... per cent and Frankfurt jumped 2.09 per cent. Italian and Spanish shares rose by about 3.0 per cent. All three markets had fallen sharply at the open, but rallied on speculation that the French government was drawing up plans to recapitalise the country's ...

Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
Oh no! This couldn't happen. Not now, not when the "Finance Minister of the Year" sits in Canberra. The A-dollar has fallen below parity with the US dollar. Australian deputy prime minister and federal treasurer Wayne Swan had been awarded the top gong ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... span of a five-year-old child, switching from one piece of important news to the next". He said the domestic bourse had fallen about 5.7 per cent this week and more than eight per cent in September so far. Resources stocks were leading the falls after ...

Super funds call for calm amid market fall

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... the wrong time," said Schroder. "It can be a very costly business to move to a different option after the markets have fallen." Schroder said AustralianSuper was experiencing heightened levels of calls from worried members, while its investment team ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... its lowest level since January 2009. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions. LONDON - European equities have fallen on fresh concerns over banks' exposure to indebted Greece, but losses were capped by expectations of more stimulus measures ...

IMF says prepare to buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... that. The global economy is in a dangerous new phase. Global activity has weakened and become more uneven, confidence has fallen sharply recently, and downside risks are growing." It now predicts global growth to "moderate to about 4 percent through ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... a per cent lower, the market drifted down further in morning trade and by 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had fallen 28.4 points, or 0.7 per cent, to be at 4,053.1, while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 28.6 points, also by 0.7 per cent ...

UBS $2bn rogue trader in custody

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... ($1.5 billion) for the quarter, but are now revising their outlook in the wake of the discovery. UBS shares, which have fallen nearly 85% in the past five years, fell 10.8% closing at SFr9.75 in Zurich, as the bank warned that the discovery could push ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... in four months and worse than expectations for a minus 13.4 print. Not only that, New York's general economic index has fallen to its weakest reading since last November to minus 8.8 - more than half the minus 4 markets' expected - from minus 7.7 in ...