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Declining pump prices have spurred demand and cut stockpiles. Gasoline supplies fell 3.32 million barrels a week ago, the biggest reduction since September, an Energy Department report showed yesterday. Oil imports dropped as the Organisation of Petroleum...
The Nasdaq composite slid 33.96 points (2.38 per cent) to 1391.47 and the broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index shed 12.25 points (1.60 per cent) to a preliminary close of 752.65. The market opened higher, shaking off the latest weak economic news...
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Asian markets slipped Thursday as cautious investors weighed the prospect of more grim corporate earnings against increasing evidence of a worsening global recession, dealers said. The downward slide in Asia followed a roller-coaster session on Wall Street...
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Energy prices followed broader financial markets higher yesterday as investors shook off more bad housing news and a dismal government report suggesting that consumer confidence is in free fall. Light, sweet crude for April delivery staged a late-session...
The benchmark NZX 50 index has hit a new five-year low, falling below 2500 for the first time since January 2004, as gloom continues to stalk global financial markets. The local falls followed overnight action on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones industrial...
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Insiders sell for many reasons, ranging from compensation to estate or tax planning to just plain getting out, but the reasons are rarely (if ever) given. Having said that, these are open market sales, made by executives who have 100% control over the...
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After rising to record one-year high, gold prices fell back today on emergence of profit selling by funds at existing higher levels, even as banks remained bullish, expecting it might rise to $1,050. Gold slid 11.36 dollar, or 1.1 per cent, to 981.54...
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Stocks dipped on Friday as persistent worries about the banking sector tempered news the Obama administration was set to announce on Wednesday a plan to stem home foreclosures. Even though investors were initially enthused by the news on the housing front,...
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Gold sky-rocketed to a record-high level of more than Rs 14,500 per ten gm in the national capital on Wednesday on frantic buying by stockists and jewellery fabricators, triggered by firming global trends. The precious metal spurted by Rs 310 at Rs 14,550...
Unfortunately, there is no light at the end of the tunnel yet," the Challenger Gray report said. "Even if the stimulus package is successful, it could take months to make a noticeable impact on the employment picture." The report adds to recent glum news...
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