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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
The Australian sharemarket remained in positive territory at noon following a strong lead from Wall Street overnight and rising oil, gold and base metal prices. At 1204 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 33.5 points to 6269 and the All Ordinaries ...

Water off a Peking duck's back

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2007
While credit and liquidity worries have continued to pound global equities markets, it's all been water off a Peking duck's back to China. According to Moody's Investors Service, Asia Pacific as a whole has been shrugging off sub-prime crisis and liquidity. ...

Debt climbs, home values fall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Scores of US government officials along with housing executives vowed it could never happen, nonetheless, the national median price of American homes is expected to fall for the first time since statistics began in 1950. Economists forecast the decline ...

Surplus surpluses and soaring profits

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
While uncertainty is still producing some gasps on US markets, our local markets are breathing easier and supported further by favourable economic indicators. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Chairman of the Banking Committee, Senator Chris ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher today with a flat lead from the US and generally buoyant trade amongst the metals. At 0704 AEST, the September Share Price Index was up 18 points at 5920 on the Sydney futures exchange. In economics ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
Australian stocks were firmer at noon, after the US Federal Reserve's market intervention last Friday gave impetus to the local bourse. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had climbed 196 points to 5867 and the All Ordinaries gained 194.5 points ...

Fed shoots from the hip

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
In a huge turnaround of priorities, the US Federal Reserve, which last week was more concerned about inflation than a sub-prime activated credit crunch, decided to cut its discount rate by 0.5 per cent to 5.75 per cent. The Fed charges this rate on ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
After staging a slight recovery yesterday, the Australian share market is expected to open lower today with New York struggling again as investors remained sensitive to news about worsening lending conditions. At 0651 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Plan B gets growing in New Zealand

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
Recently listed Plan B Holdings has shifted its expansion plans into gear with the announcement of an alliance between its subsidiary Partnership Financial Services and New Zealand-based Polson Higgs Business Advisors. Polson Higgs will provide advice ...

China's GDP and CPI blowout

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
China continues to blitz market expectations with GDP growth in the June quarter coming in at 11.9 per cent, well above the expected 11.0 per cent and their strongest growth since Q3 1994. China's industrial production also expanded by 1.3 per cent ...