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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
... since October 26, while the broader All Ordinaries index gained 43.6 points, or 0.92 per cent, at 4,776.7. NEW YORK - US shares sputtered on Wednesday, ending mixed as investors mulled a weaker-than-anticipated survey on job losses and a cautiously optimistic ...

Joined at the hip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... action in the north across its border. The usual suspects were in attendance to provide a semblance of market action. US shares rose on positive housing news. The S&P/Case Shiller home price index rose by 1.1 per cent in August - the third consecutive ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... fell 52.37 points, or 1.35 percent, to close at 3,8290.85 points. TOKYO - Japanese stocks ended lower on Thursday after US shares fell and as wariness grew ahead of Japanese earnings season. The benchmark Nikkei-225 index dropped 66.22 points, or 0.64 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... banking stocks declined on the view that they've already had a good run. Local stocks had gained in early trading after US shares rose to a new high for the year on Friday, and as miners gained on a better-than expected production report from iron ore ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... said the country's unemployment rate unexpectedly had dipped to 9.4 per cent, its first decline in 15 months. That sent US shares higher, with the broad market Standard & Poor's 500 index advanced 13.4 points, or 1.34 per cent, to 1010.48. On the local ...

Vanguard ETFs hit $20m mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... international ETFs are getting. The firm launched the Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF, the Vanguard All-World ex US Shares Index ETF and the Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF on 8 May this year. "The majority of that has gone into Australian ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... liquefied natural gas (LNG) development. Woodside shares added 35 cents to $43.70. Setting the mood of equity investors, US shares gained on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 1.15 per cent to 8,500.33. The tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... cent, at 3,941.7, while the broader All Ordinaries index had gained 7.5 points, or 0.19 per cent, to 3,919.6. NEW YORK - US shares vaulted higher on Friday after a largely positive report card on the country's leading banks as well as better-than-expected ...

Vanguard enters ETFs fray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... will start with three products on the ASX namely the Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF, the Vanguard All-World ex-US Shares Index ETF and the Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF. These new ETFs will appeal to financial planners because of their ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... cent, to 3,529.5 and the broader All Ordinaries index retreated 147.5 points, or 4.07 per cent, to 3,476.8. NEW YORK - US shares ended with modest gains Thursday as the market erased early losses after news of a big economic stimulus introduced in Congress ...