Monday, August 1st, 2011
Wall Street has slipped for the third day in a row as investors sold technology stocks and as debt talks between US politicians again failed to reach an outcome.
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
Concerns that US politicians will not reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling have led the local share market to its biggest fall in two weeks. The sell-off was widespread, with only 19 of the top 200 companies making gains, as investors shied away from riskier assets.
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
By Dave Shellock, Financial Times, 14 Jan 2011Inflation concerns began to reassert themselves across the globe this week even as worries about the eurozone sovereign debt crisis showed signs of easing and the US fourth-quarter earnings season got off to a broadly positive start."Inflation has surfaced as a major ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Strength in the major miners provided some relief to the share market today, even as worries about the impact of the Queensland floods remained.
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
(Adds dealer comment, stocks on the move ) MELBOURNE, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Australian stocks fell 0.3 percent in morning trade after Australia's third-quarter GDP came in lower than expected, adding to worries about the widening euro zone debt crisis.
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
(Adds broker comment, updates to late morning) By Michael Smith
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
(Updates with opening trade) MELBOURNE, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Australian stocks weakened0.4 percent in early trade on Tuesday, following offshoremarkets down on the euro zone's debt woes and worries aboutweakened Chinese demand for metals.
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
(Adds comments, details) By Victoria Thieberger
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
(Updates to close) MELBOURNE, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Australian stocks fell 0.7percent on Wednesday, knocked by the miners after top metalsconsumer China unexpectedly moved to tighten credit andinvestors shifted out of risky assets into the U.S. dollar.
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Saturday, September 25th, 2010
(Adds detail) SYDNEY, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Australian stocks fell 0.7percent on Friday and snapped a three week winning streak afteredgy investors preferred to take profit as lacklustre U.S. andeuro zone economic data rekindled recovery worries.
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