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Economics

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
Australian shares are expected to open higher on Monday after US stocks gained on Friday on encouraging earnings news from major retailers and on higher metals prices.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket was one per cent lower at noon as resource stocks declined after falls in commodity prices and as investors judge the recent run-up on sharemarkets to have been enough for now.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
The Australian stock market has received negative leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices lower and commodities prices weaker.

You're dreaming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
The point is that given optimism and the positive turn of economic indicators in the Australian economy, financial markets are now expecting the jobless rate to stabilise at current levels - well, maybe few points up or down.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket rose around 0.7 per cent in intra-day trade on Thursday morning with the biggest stocks adding around one per cent.

Dollar dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
Have no fear, the Fed is here...to stay. Perhaps spooked by the pause on Wall Street in recent days, the Fed found it necessary to re-assure investors that borrowing rates would remain practically free for an "extended period."

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
The Australian stock market has received positive leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices higher and commodities prices firmer.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
The Australian sharemarket made moderate gains in morning trade as property trusts strengthened and resources and financial stocks held their ground.

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
Like their counterparts in most part of the globe, Eurozone equities have welcomed the massive liquidity injections by both fiscal and monetary authorities.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
The Australian market has received mixed leads from overseas, with Wall Street's key stock indices and commodities prices mostly lower, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive in afternoon trade and the price of gold was higher.