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THE Australian share market recovered early heavy losses to be only slightly lower at noon, after a negative lead from global markets overnight was offset by better-than-expected results from Telstra.At 12pm (AEST), the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 1.8 points, or 0.04 per cent, at 4139.5, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 5.1 [...]

Roland Randall, strategist at TD Securities, said the U.S. downgrade was “another tick in the box for the long-term bears, and that’s the real concern — that it makes people a bit more pessimistic on the long-term economic outlook.” China’s Shanghai Composite Index CN:000001 -3.79% , South Korea’s Kospi KR:0100 -3.82% and Taiwan’s Taiex each [...]

US Stock market futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wall Street Monday following on from last weeks downgrade of America’s credit rating from triple-A for the first time in history by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P). S&P came in for significant criticism from US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the rating agency [...]

Investors looking for reasons  for optimism after the worst stock-market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis probably won’t find it in Friday’s July jobs report.Economists forecast that employers added only 90,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.2 percent, according to a survey by FactSet. That would mark an improvement [...]

For investors who endured the bruising downturn and were seeing green again in their 401(k)s, Tuesday’s Wall Street tumble was a rude awakening – and a reminder that retirement savings are not always secure.”People are frightened,” said Scott Brewster, a certified financial planner with Brewster Financial Planning in Park Slope, Brooklyn. “Everywhere we turn, there [...]

U.S. stock market futures dropped Thursday as investors showed little appetite for extending the previous session’s modest gains, with earnings from General Motors Co. and the latest figures on weekly jobless claims to come.Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 48 points to 11770 and Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures were down 6.50 [...]

  The nation is just days away from the debt ceiling deadline and   no one knows exactly what will happen when the borrowing limit is reached. But even in the worst case scenarios, many experts think investors will flock to U.S. Treasuries.That possibility would mean lower borrowing costs for the government, not the spike in [...]

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