WALL Street wobbled to a mixed close today as fresh highs for crude oil prices and a weak reading on consumer confidence took the lustre off data showing a surprise rebound in US housing starts.
US CONSUMER confidence tumbled to its lowest in 28 years this month, a survey showed overnight, as short-term inflation expectations reached the highest levels since the stagflationary early 1980s.
THE closing bell overnight tolled the end of an era at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock trading floor, where, since 1983, traders dressed in colorful jackets have used an array of hand signals and shouts to buy and sell cattle,
THE price of oil rocketed to a record high of $US127.43 ($136) a barrel overnight, as US President Bush prepared to urge Saudi Arabia to pump more crude.
ST George Bank's share price indicates that the market is expecting a new offer, chief executive Paul Fegan said yesterday, with eyes on the big banks.
Bruce, the Presentation Tool is getting incrementally better. It's a nice little hobby project because there's always just a little more that could be done, and never a huge task at any given step. Thus I can do a little
