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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
The Australian dollar has fallen almost half a US cent following disappointing housing finance data and a soft consumer sentiment survey. At 1200 AEDT, the local unit was trading at 100.73 US cents, lower from Tuesday's local close of 101.16 US cents. ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... 368,000 -- the lowest level for claims since May 2008 - ending 26 February. The four-week moving average of claims has fallen significantly below 400K to 388,500. Remember what the US Labor Department said before? That "it takes a sustained improvement ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... week to the next. But even my favoured indicator (because it is less volatile), the four-week moving average of claims has fallen significantly 400K to 388,500, continuing the underlying trend decline in this data. The previous day (yesterday's yesterday) ...

Queen Qaddafi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... turned out to be a good buying op. And what about the worry "du jour" that is inflation? Bond yields almost everywhere have fallen since the MENA tension erupted. Now why would investors "flock to the relatively safety of the bond market" if they really ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 36.7 points, or 0.74 per cent, to 4,900 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 35.2 points, or 0.7 per cent, at 4,990.9 points. NEW YORK - Securities markets were closed on Wall Street overnight ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
The Australian sharemarket had fallen slightly at noon as punters cashed in on company earning results reported earlier in the session. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 4.5 points at 4,926.5, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... noted that consumer price inflation measures in a number of countries have risen, Australia's "underlying inflation has fallen by a substantial amount from the peak in 2008." Perhaps this is due to tight labour market conditions and buoyant consumer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... market, proposing that state-backed lenders are wound up and setting minimum downpayments for buyers. European bourses had fallen earlier in the day amid uncertainty over the political crisis in Egypt, and in particular over the strategically important ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... cent, Kuala Lumpur fell 0.23 per cent, Bangkok fell 1.39 per cent, and Mumbai tumbled 1.03 per cent. Indian shares have fallen over 16 per cent this year on overseas funds outflows in excess of $US1.2 billion ($A1.19 billion). WELLINGTON - The New Zealand ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... peers." On Tuesday morning, National Australia Bank reported an increase in first quarter cash earnings but said margins had fallen slightly due to higher funding costs. NAB shares rose 66 cents in morning trade, by more than 2.5 per cent, to $25.66. ...