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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... Speaker John Boehner at mid-session backed President Barack Obama's call for military action against Syria. LONDON - European stocks fell in choppy trade as a US-Israeli missile test rattled nerves and raised expectations of Western military action in ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... first trading day of September. What transpired was equity markets jumped on the first trading day of September - European stocks soared closer to 2%, those in Tokyo by 1.4% and in Australia by more than 1%.A Too bad for Wall Street, it was celebrating ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... debate the timing of pulling back its $US85 billion ($A94.31 billion) per month in bond-buying purchases. LONDON - European stocks ended lower as investors braced themselves for the release of minutes from the US central bank which could give clues on ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... steadying themselves after the barrage of corporate earnings and economic data releases in recent weeks. LONDON - European stocks ended the session mixed with London's index of leading shares taking the worst of the beating amid more indications that ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... (0.57 per cent) to 1,697.37, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite lost 27.18 (0.74 per cent) at 3,665.77. LONDON - European stocks finished lower as Wall Street took a beating from a drop in the US trade deficit which fuelled fears the Federal Reserve's ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... comments from Federal Reserve Bank of Texas President Richard Fisher that advocated a quick tapering. LONDON - European stocks ended in mixed mode as markets digested positive eurozone data amid a drop in retail sales and weaker-than-expected profits ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... (0.59 per cent) to 3,579.27. Apple shed 1.7 per cent ahead of its earnings, due after the market closed. LONDON - European stocks closed lower, as disappointing US data dampened positive sentiment earlier brought on by better than expected American blue-chip ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... giant equity to disappoint after last week's unimpressive results from Coca-Cola, Google and Microsoft. LONDON - European stocks suffered mixed fortunes with high gold prices offering some support while a string of uneven US earnings fuelled investor ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... economic powers now face new risks, the IMF warned, "including the possibility of a longer growth slowdown." LONDON - European stocks closed on a positive note, boosted by better-than-expected earnings from US aluminium giant Alcoa and with the eurozone ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... revenue growth of only 1.2 per cent from S&P 500 companies, said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O'Hare. LONDON - European stocks ended with gains, reversing pre-weekend losses as investors took a new look at upbeat US jobs data that had sparked heavy selling ...