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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... $27.81, ANZ 27 cents stronger at $23.34 and Westpac lifting 23 cents to $23.83. In the materials sector, BHP Billiton advanced 47 cents to $45.02, while Rio Tinto improved by $1.05 to $80.70. Retailer David Jones Ltd reported a fall in sales in its third ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... slice of funding from a bailout package agreed last year. In Paris, the world's biggest steel producer ArcelorMittal advanced 2.6 per cent to 25.290 euros in the wake of the Chinese trade figures. Investors were also poring over company results. In London ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... high last week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 47.23 points to finish at 12,810.54. The broader S&P 500 index advanced 3.13 points to 1363.61, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite edged up 1.01 points at 2873.54. Commsec market analyst Juliette ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... high last week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 47.23 points to finish at 12,810.54. The broader S&P 500 index advanced 3.13 points to 1363.61, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite edged up 1.01 points at 2873.54. Oil got a boost from the weaker ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... Industrial Average also surged, adding 95.59 points (0.76 per cent) to finish at 12,690.96. The broad-market S&P 500 advanced 8.42 points (0.62 per cent) to 1,355. Citing the economy's only "moderate" recovery, the Fed also kept the door open for more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... Easter holiday-shortened week. The markets will be closed on Friday. The S&P 500 index, a broader measure of the markets, advanced 17.74 points (1.35 per cent) to 1,330.36. Computer chip giant Intel, reporting forecast-busting earnings after the market ...

Thanks S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... slow but still consistent gains in employment. Now, it appears that housing's beginning to stir too. US housing starts advanced by 7.2 per cent in March to an annualised rate of 549,000 units. Expectations were for a rise of only 520K. The outlook looks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite had added 9.59 points (0.35 per cent) at 2,744.97. The broad-market S&P 500 stock index advanced 7.48 points (0.57 per cent) to 1,312.62. After a midday slump, the equity markets recovered to end the day clawing back some ...

UBS staff gone, ratings on hold

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... fund, including the Australian Large Cap Equities Team, mining and energy analyst Robert Turner. UBS said they were well advanced in their search for replacements and had interviewed candidates. "We expect to make a senior appointment very shortly," ...

Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... "If you had the oil price going up to where it was in the summer of 2008, at $140 a barrel, at that point some of the advanced economies will start to double dip." Back then I argued that if The Economist and Dr. Roubini are correct, that US$140-150 ...