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Aussie Share Market gains $100B in 2 Days

By: southnet send a private message
Sydney : Australia | about 1 year ago  
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Investors can take a breath as the Australian share market recovers some ground after a tumultuous week.

The controversial ban on short trading by the ASX assisted the recovery.

Australia's biggest company BHP Billiton jumped 12% in value.

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  • News Source: Adelaide Now | about 1 year ago
    More than $51 billion in value was added to the market yesterday alone, with the All Ordinaries index jumping 4.3 per cent to 5050.1. It was boosted by a ban on the controversial practice of short selling, which allows traders to profit when shares...
  • News Source: The Age | about 1 year ago
    THE All Ordinaries Index had its biggest two-day rally in 21 years after regulators banned short-selling and the US Government proposed a $US700 billion ($A840 billion) plan to avert a financial meltdown. But the start of trading was delayed for an...
  • News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 year ago
    The ASX 200 climbed 4.5 per cent to 5,020.5, while the All Ordinaries index gained 209.4 points to 5,050.1. The surge follows the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's move to ease market turmoil by extending a ban on most forms of short-...
  • News Source: Androscoggin News | about 1 year ago
    The Australian share market surged as the US Treasury plan to restore calm to the financial system begins working its way through Congress in what could become a contentious fight this week. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained  as much as 4.45%,...
  • News Source: Inquirer.net | about 1 year ago
    Asian shares are set to surge Monday as the US government's plan to shore up ailing financial systems saw Wall Street finish a week of upheaval on a wave of confidence. The main US indexes rose at least 3.0-4.0 percent on Friday, a two-day rally that...
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  • Blog Source: intermexfreemarket.blogspot.com
    22 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks surged, led by financial and commodity companies, after the US government proposed buying $700 billion of bank assets and Australia and Taiwan restricted the short sale of equities. ...
  • Blog Source: netmillionare.blogspot.com
    Taiwan's financial regulator banned short selling of 150 stocks after the market lost a third of its value in 2008. In Australia, traders won't be allowed to transact covered short sales, in which stock is borrowed to bet on share price ...
  • Blog Source: business.presslogs.com
    But National Australia Bank’s head of research, Peter Jolly says it could also put pressure on the Reserve Bank of Australia to keep cutting interest rates. Mr Jolly said the RBA would want to head off a rise in mortgage rates that ...
  • Blog Source: nzcapitalist.blogspot.com
    As I write this the Australian Sharemarket is opening and most stocks are well up on their Friday close....ANZ and BHP are up 11 - 12% What I think may happen is something like this, and using the ANZ bank as an example. ...
  • Blog Source: www.classicfm.co.za
    One is that in the Australian share markets, the financial sector is actually very large. The major banks, for example, and financial institutions actually have a very high weighting in the All Ordinaries Index, which is our share ...
  • Blog Source: netmillionare.blogspot.com
    It doesn't care how big or small their customer is. Cash is cash. Business is business. And business is good. The company has reported half-year revenue of $72.8 million, over 20% greater than the original forecast. ...
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