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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... meeting would result in a plan to battle Europe's fiscal woes and prevent the world economy from slipping back into recession. The euro stood at $US1.3856 in Tokyo trade, down slightly from $1.3881 in New York late Friday. The European single currency ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
The Australian share market was more than 1.5 per cent higher at noon after gains on Wall Street and signs of optimism about a solution to the European debt crisis. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 68.4 points, or 1.63 per cent, to 4,274 and the ...

Indonesia to defy world growth forecasts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... 2012, only marginally above the 2% threshold the International Monetary Fund and World Bank see as a technical global recession. In Citi 's downgrade sights were the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, the UK and even China. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) expects ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... weak economic growth. With just barely enough positive data to convince that the country will skirt -- for now -- a new recession, and just enough news on the European political front to convince that the eurozone crisis would be under control, investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... higher-than-expected US jobs data helped ease concerns that the world's biggest economy was at risk of slipping back into recession. On the negative side, Moody's downgraded its credit ratings for a dozen British banks, highlighting worries over the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... 899.6 million shares worth $2.71 billion. She said investors were hopeful a Greek default would not lead to a global recession after the Netherlands voted to beef up Europe's rescue fund. The European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled new measures to help ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... lifted by better-than-expected economic data out of Washington that eased concerns the United States is slipping into recession. Tokyo jumped 1.66 per cent, or 139.04 points, to 8,522.02, Seoul rallied 2.63 per cent, or 43.80 points, to 1,710.32 and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... a mild boost from economic data that, while not demonstrating a strong economy, argued against the idea of a second recession. The ISM index on the service economy in September fell slightly to 53 from 53.3 the previous month, still in positive growth ...

Bear killer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... indicator of the US economy. My previous studies showed that a reading of 45 or lower is almost always followed by a recession. So the latest reading is as good a news as can be in that it takes America farther away from that feared DD - double-dip. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... market's less-than-expected response to Germany's approval to beef up Europe's rescue fund to stave off a second global recession. Wealth Within analyst Janine Cox said she had expected shares to lift higher than they did after Germany's parliament ended ...