Wall Street: US stocks drop amid global equity selloff

NEW YORK: US stocks dropped sharply in early trade Thursday, following international markets downward as anxiety over global growth continued to prompt selling.

About 30 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 16,062.34, down 79.40 points (0.49 per cent).

The broad-based S&P 500 fell 13.75 (0.74 per cent) to 1,848.74, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 43.05 (1.02 per cent) to 4,172.27.

Equity markets in Britain and France were down more than 1.0 per cent. Asian markets also fell sharply, with Japan's Nikkei tumbling 2.22 per cent.

"Global risk aversion is persisting amid exacerbated global growth concerns, fueled by yesterday's surprising decline in US retail sales," said a market note from Charles Schwab.

"Moreover, a flare-up in Greek debt concerns, festering Ebola fears, and heightened geopolitical concerns are adding to the dampened global mood."

Thursday's declines move the market closer to a full-blown correction, normally considered a drop of 10-20 per cent. The S&P 500 has fallen about eight per cent since its mid-September all-time high.

Investors brushed off positive news, such as a drop in initial jobless claims to 264,000, the lowest level since April 2000, according to the Department of Labor.

Dow member Goldman Sachs fell 2.1 per cent despite reporting a 50 per cent increase in third-quarter earnings to $2.14 billion in results that bested Wall Street expectations by a wide margin.

Video-streaming company Netflix plummeted 22.7 per cent on disappointing subscriber growth figures. The video-streaming company said it gained just three million members in the past quarter, to boost its subscribers to 53.1 million worldwide.

Apple fell 1.5 per cent ahead of an event in California later Thursday at which it is expected to unveil new versions of the iPad.

Chesapeake Energy bolted 13.5 per cent higher following news it will sell shale oil and gas assets to Southwestern Energy for $5.4 billion. Southwestern lost 6.9 per cent.

EBay dropped 4.9 per cent as it projected fourth-quarter revenues of $4.85-$4.95 billion, below analyst forecasts for $5.16 billion. The profit outlook was also on the low end of expectations.

Bond prices were mixed. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury held steady at 2.09 per cent, the same level as Wednesday, while the 30-year stood at 2.87 per cent, down from 2.88 per cent. Bond prices and yields move inversely.

Oil prices briefly dipped below $80 a barrel for the US benchmark contract, before coming back to 80.75, off $1.03 from Wednesday's close.
Source : economictimes

Wall Street bounces after 3-day slump on earnings hope

NEW YORK: US stocks were higher on Tuesday, rebounding after the S&P 500's worst three-day drop since November 2011, as bullish investors hoped a solid earnings season would ease global growth concerns.

Citigroup, up 3.2 per cent to $51.48, was among the top boosts to the benchmark S&P index after the bank posted better-than-expected quarterly results and said it would pull out of consumer banking in 11 markets.

But JPMorgan Chase shares lost 1.1 per cent to $57.54, after the biggest US bank posted third-quarter earnings. Wells Fargo, the fourth largest US bank, lost 1.6 per cent to $49.39 after its results.

The S&P financial index gained 0.7 per cent.

Johnson & Johnson shares lost 1.3 per cent to $97.82 even after the diversified healthcare company reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on the back of strong sales for a new hepatitis C drug.

The index closed below its 200-day moving average for the first time since Nov. 16, 2012, on Monday and is now down 6.1 per cent from its record closing high on September 18.

S&P 500 companies are expected to show earnings growth of 6.4 per cent in the third quarter, according to Thomson Reuters data, with revenue growth expected at 4 per cent. After the close, Dow component and chipmaker Intel is set to post results.

At 10:58am, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 84.83 points, or 0.52 per cent, to 16,405.9, the S&P 500 gained 12.45 points, or 0.66 per cent, to 1,887.19 and the Nasdaq Composite added 39.84 points, or 0.95 per cent, to 4,253.50.

The largest per centage gainer on the S&P 500 was Delta Air Lines, up 5.6 per cent, while the largest per centage decliner was ONEOK Inc, down 3.3 per cent.

The largest per centage gainer on the Nasdaq 100 was NXP Semiconductors, up 5.1 per cent, while the largest per centage decliner was Autodesk, down 2.1 per cent.

Among the most active stocks on the NYSE were Bank Of America, up 0.67 per cent to $16.51; Petrobras, up 0.23 per cent to $17.31; and Advanced Micro Devices, down 1.09 per cent to $2.71.

On the Nasdaq, APPLE, up 0.3 per cent to $100.08, and Facebook, up 0.5 per cent to $73.34, were among the most actively traded.

Advancing issues were outnumbering declining ones on the NYSE by 2,020 to 953, for a 2.12-to-1 ratio on the upside; on the Nasdaq, 1,862 issues were rising and 690 falling for a 2.70-to-1 ratio favoring advancers.

The benchmark S&P 500 index was posting 6 new 52-week highs and 23 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite was recording 16 new highs and 121 new lows.

Wall Street falls, Dow in negative territory for 2014

NEW YORK: US stocks fell on Friday, with the Dow ending in negative territory for the year and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting their worst weeks since May 2012.

Technology shares led the day's decline after a chipmaker warned of a major pullback in the industry.

Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 115.15 points, or 0.69 per cent, to 16,544.1, the S&P 500 lost 22.08 points, or 1.15 per cent, to 1,906.13 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 102.10 points, or 2.33 per cent, to 4,276.24.

Source : economictimes

Wall Street dips on growth concerns after massive rally

US stocks edged lower on Thursday as concerns over global growth spurred investors to take profits following a massive advance in the previous session.

While domestic news - including job data and corporate earnings - was encouraging, investors continued taking their trading cues from abroad.

German exports dropped by 5.8 per cent in August, their biggest fall since January 2009. The data was the latest indication, following bearish reads on industrial output and industrial orders, that Europe's largest economy was faltering amid broader weakness in the euro zone. Separately, data this week showed growth in the Chinese services sector weakened slightly in September.

The third-quarter earnings season got off to a strong start, with both Alcoa Inc and PepsiCo Inc rallying after results topped expectations.

Alcoa rose 0.8 per cent to $16.19 while PepsiCo was up 0.9 per cent at $94.79.

On the downside, Gap Inc plunged 12 per cent to $36.94 as the S&P 500's biggest decliner a day after it reported weaker-than-expected same-store sales for September and said its chief executive would retire in February.

Jobless claims dropped 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 287,000 in the latest week. The report supported September jobs data, which also pointed to improving conditions in the labor market.

Wall Street soared on Wednesday, with major indexes posting their biggest one-day jump of the year after the Federal Reserve reassured investors its first rate hike would come when economic data pointed to an economy that could grow without Fed stimulus, rather than on a specific schedule. With the day's advance, the S&P 500 jumped back above its 100-day moving average, a sign of improving near-term momentum.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 45.98 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 16,948.24, the S&P 500 lost 5.75 points, or 0.29 per cent, to 1,963.14 and the Nasdaq Composite

dropped 13.41 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 4,455.19.

Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by 1,801 to 888, for a 2.03-to-1 ratio; on the Nasdaq, 1,616 issues were fell and 573 advanced for a 2.82-to-1 ratio favoring decliners.

The benchmark S&P 500 index posted 18 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 14 new highs and 33 new lows.
Source : economictimes

Strong US jobs data boosts dollar and world stocks

The dollar climbed to a more than four-year peak and global equity markets surged on Friday after data showed U.S. employers stepped up hiring in September and the jobless rate fell to a six-year low, further signs of a relatively strong economy.

The strong dollar pushed gold below USD 1,200 an ounce for the first time this year after the Labor Department reported that US nonfarm payrolls rose by 248,000 last month and the jobless rate fell two-tenths of a point to 5.9 percent.

The better-than-expected report knocked the euro to a more than two-year low against the dollar, which hit a 15-month high against the Swiss franc. The dollar index, a measure of the greenback against six major currencies, headed toward its biggest yearly gain in nine years, up 8 percent so far in 2014.

Stocks on Wall Street rose more than 1 percent, and European shares finished with a gain just under that level.

The dollar index hit a high of 86.746, its strongest level since June 2010, and was last up 1.24 percent at 86.663.

Against the yen, the greenback jumped 1.31 percent to 109.83 yen, while the euro slid 1.23 percent to USD 1.2512.

MSCI's all-country world index of stock performance in 45 countries rose 0.51 percent.

The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares closed up 0.9 percent at 1,347.14. Shares of European airlines rallied as the price of oil dropped, and exporters suchas Airbus got a lift from the euro's renewed slide.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 214.3 points, or 1.28 percent, to 17,015.35. The S&P 500 gained 23.56 points, or 1.21 percent, to 1,969.73 and the Nasdaq Composite added 54.83 points, or 1.24 percent, to 4,485.03.

German Bund yields rose a day after the European Central Bank showed little willingness to stimulate the economy through the purchase of sovereign debt. Markets could be in for a rough fourth quarter as investors anticipate tighter Fed monetary policy and if the ECB stands pat.

Bund yields rose 2 basis points to 0.93 percent. Treasuries prices fell. The 10-year Treasury note fell 3/32 in price to yield 2.4466 percent.

Brent crude oil futures fell below $92 a barrel at one point, down for a fourth consecutive day in a slide that has pushed prices to their lowest levels since 2012. Abundant supplies and a strong dollar continue to weigh on the market.

Brent for November delivery settled down USD 1.11 at USD 92.31 a barrel. US November crude slipped USD 1.27 to settle at USD 89.74.
Source : Moneycontrol

World Stock Market today :Today's Big Stock Market Movers

The Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 are all up, with the Nasdaq leading the pack at +1.1%. Here are the six big movers in the S&P 500.

Winners:

Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD): Up 13.4% — Sears Holdings said it expected its first-quarter earnings from continuing operations to be between $1.46 to $1.84 a share, which has caused its stock to jump over 13%.

Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK) : Up 7.4% — Aubrey McClendon has agreed to separate the role of CEO and chairman, as he is relinquishing his position as chairman but remaining CEO. Investors support this decision, as their stock has moved up rapidly.

Masco Corporation (MAS): Up 5.5% — Masco is confident that their business, which involves mostly cabinet and other home improvement products, will improve with an improving housing market.

Losers:

Avon Products (AVP): Down 7.6% — Avon's profits sunk as they sold 1% fewer items and the number of sales representatives sank, which has caused their stock to tumble.

Emerson Electric Co. (EMR): Down 5.6% —Due to economic conditions in Europe and China, Emerson Electric's Q2 profits fell 2%.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (JEC): Down 4.9% — Jacobs announced earnings of 65 cents per share, which CEO John Prosser stated were below their expectations.

World Stock Market : Dow Jones average hits highest mark since '07

NEW YORK: The fastest growth in US manufacturing in 10 months gave stocks a lift Tuesday and pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest close in more than four years.

Manufacturing expanded last month at the strongest pace since June, according to the Institute for Supply Management. Orders, hiring and production all rose.

A measure of manufacturing employment also reached a nine-month high, a hopeful sign ahead of Friday's monthly jobs report.

The manufacturing news jolted stock indexes out of a morning stupor, although the gains waned throughout the afternoon. The Dow added 65.69 points to 13,279.32, its highest closing mark since Dec. 28, 2007, during the first month of the Great Recession.

Treasury prices fell, and benchmark crude oil rose $1.29 to settle at $106.16 per barrel. Both of those things tend to happen when investors expect stronger economic growth.

In a separate report Tuesday, the Commerce Department said construction spending ticked up in March, following two months of declines.

Other indexes pushed higher. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose eight points to 1,406. The Nasdaq composite climbed four points to 3,050.

All 10 industry groups within the S&P 500 climbed, led by energy companies. Chesapeake Energy Corp. jumped 6 per cent on reports that the company will strip CEO Aubrey McClendon of his chairman's title.

McClendon, Chesapeake's founder, was under fire for taking out more than $1 billion in loans using the company's wells as collateral. Chesapeake recently agreed to end the program that allowed McClendon to take personal stakes in the wells.

The S&P finished April in the red, its first losing month since November. The Dow managed a tiny gain.

Judging by its track record, May isn't a promising month for stocks. Since World War II, the S&P 500 has gained an average of 0.31 per cent in May. For all months, the average gain is 0.67 per cent.

Among stocks making big moves:

Sears Holdings Corp. soared 15 per cent, the biggest gain in the S&P 500. The operator of Kmart and Sears stores expects to post a first-quarter profit thanks to a gain from the sale of some US and Canadian stores. The company's stock has jumped 99 per cent so far this year.

Archer Daniels Midland Co. gained 7 per cent after the food conglomerate reported profits that beat analysts' expectations. Profits dropped by nearly a third over the past year, pulled down by one-time charges and lower weaker results from its ethanol and oilseeds businesses.
 
Avon Products Inc. fell 8 per cent, the largest drop in the S&P. The company said earnings plunged 82 per cent, hurt by a bigger restructuring charge, commodity costs and rising labor costs. The results were worse than analysts had expected.

World Stock Market : World stocks up on hopes of new Fed stimulus move

World stock markets were modestly higher Monday as sluggish U.S. growth boosted hopes for more measures from the Federal Reserve to help the world's No. 1 economy.

The Fed has already carried out two massive rounds of bond-buying known as quantitative easing to drive down long-term interest rates and stimulate spending and business investment. Low bond yields also encourage investors to shift money to stocks.

European stocks were mostly higher in early trading. Britain's FTSE rose 0.2 percent to 5,759.82 and Germany's DAX added 0.2 percent to 6,815.04. France's CAC-40 fell 0.6 percent to 3,246.79.

U.S. stocks were headed for a neutral opening, with Dow Jones industrial futures nearly unchanged at 13,168. S&P 500 futures were flat at 1,398.

Asian stocks were higher in trading thinned by holidays in Japan and mainland China. All major Asian markets except Tokyo will be closed for holidays on Tuesday.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 1.7 percent to 21,094.21, with banking shares racking up solid gains.

South Korea's Kospi added 0.3 percent to 1,981.99 amid improving business sentiment among manufacturers. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.8 percent to 4,396.60 as rising commodities prices helped push up its mining sector.

Benchmarks in New Zealand, Taiwan and the Philippines also gained, while Singapore and Indonesia fell. Markets in mainland China and Japan were closed for public holidays.

Traders are also awaiting U.S. monthly jobs figures for April, to be released Friday, and the second round of France's presidential election on Sunday.

U.S. stock markets rose Friday despite a report that the U.S. economy grew at annual rate of 2.2 percent, below the 2.5 percent that economist had expected. It grew at a faster rate, 3 percent, in the final three months of 2011.

Benchmark oil for June delivery was down 20 cents to $104.73 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 38 cents to settle at $104.93 in New York on Friday.

In currency trading, the euro fell to $1.3239 from $1.3259 late Friday in New York. The dollar fell to 80.14 yen from 80.39 yen.

World Stock Market : Wall Street week ahead: In battle of the S&P, can bulls gain the edge

It will be another battleground for S&P 500 index next week. Will the bears finally give up and let the bulls have their way?

The S&P 500, the market's broadest measure, managed to close out the week above the psychologically important 1,400 mark for the first time since early April. But the index is still down 0.4 per cent for the month so far even after gaining 1.8 per cent for the week, with only one trading day left in April.

Brian Lazorishak, senior quantitative analyst and portfolio manager at Chase Investment Counsel in Charlottesville, Virginia, said a close above 1,400 is positive, but the recent high, near 1,422, is a more important technical level.

"That's what we're looking for on the upside as confirmation there's room to move higher," Lazorishak said.

"A close above that would open the window to testing highs back to early 2008. The next natural area you'd see is a run to at least 1,440, the May 2008 high."

Next week's release of a slew of economic data on the U.S. labor market and the beginning of the latter half of corporate earnings will be keenly watched to see if they are enough to allow stocks to break above the recent trading range.

The S&P 500, up 11.6 per cent for the year, jumped 4.4 per cent in January, 4.1 per cent in February and 3.1 per cent in March, but is down 0.4 per cent so far this month.

"The sideways action we have seen over the past few weeks was enough to alleviate any overbought conditions that existed in the market a month ago," said Larry McMillan, president of options research firm McMillan Analysis Corp in a report on Friday.

"Thus, the market has the potential for another leg higher in this longer term uptrend, one that began early October 2011," he said.

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS At the top of investors' radar screen next week will be the government's closely watched monthly jobs report for April, to be released on Friday. Jobs growth in March slowed to 120,000, the smallest increase since October, disappointing investors even though the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 per cent.

Ahead of the government's payrolls report, investors will be watching the ADP Employment Report due on Wednesday and weekly jobless claims data due on Thursday for indications of whether the labor market is gaining momentum.

Corporate earnings, which drove gains in stocks last week, will also be in focus.

As of Friday, 57 per cent of the S&P 500 companies had reported first-quarter results. Of those 287 in the S&P 500 that had reported earnings, 72.8 per cent posted results that topped analysts' expectations, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Companies due to report earnings next week include Chesapeake Energy and Pfizer Inc on Tuesday; Prudential Financial, Time Warner and Visa Inc

on Wednesday; and Kraft Foods and Viacom Inc on Thursday. Also on agenda next week, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co, has organized a meeting of major bank chief executives with Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo, the central bank's point man on regulation, according to The Wall Street Journal on Friday.

The meeting, slated for Wednesday in New York, is expected to focus on a Fed proposal to limit banks' exposure to other firms and governments, though other regulatory concerns likely will be discussed.

World Stock Market : Apple, Amazon drive US stocks past dull GDP data

NEW YORK: Tech giants Apple and Amazon proved their mettle to doubting investors once again, leading US stocks higher in the week to Friday as the markets showed they had not yet run out of steam.

The world's biggest company, market value-wise, and the Internet's biggest retailer, both showed up analysts with forecast-busting results that gave the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 firm boosts.

They also helped distract from other possible sources of investor worry -- a somewhat glum US growth report for the first quarter, Federal Reserve inaction on hopes for more stimulus, new worries in Europe and some concern about Chinese growth.

Friday brought a lower-than-forecast estimate for first-quarter US growth, of only 2.2 per cent, down from 3.0 per cent in the final quarter of 2011.

But even that failed to dull the markets, which turned in gains for the day.

US markets scored a firm performance for the week, with earnings from a number of firms beating forecasts and cheering the investors.

For the week the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 1.53 per cent to end at 13,228.31, and the S&P gained 1.8 per cent to 1,403.36.

The Nasdaq though picked up 2.29 per cent, helped mainly by Apple's 5.2 per cent gain for the week, and Amazon's 19.4 per cent run.

Also helping the markets were blue-chip Boeing's earnings, which delivered a 5.1 per cent boost to the aircraft maker's shares for the period.

"The reporting period has been much better than expected, although admittedly from a lower bar -- 83 per cent of companies have beaten expectations so far, which is an all-time record high," said analysts at Charles Schwab & Co.

"But market reactions to good reports have been more muted relative to the punishments doled out to those that disappointed."

Among the disappointments were Caterpillar, which lost 2.9 per cent for the week; Procter & Gamble, down 4.6 per cent; and United Continental, down 3.2 per cent.

Even so, said Bryan Sapp of Schaeffer's Investment Research, the markets did not appear to want to fall.

"The one certainty remains that this market is made of Teflon. Seemingly no matter what happens, the bears just can't manage to take the reins and drive us lower, despite abysmal economic data and numerous macroeconomic fears," he said.

The Charles Schwab analysts said they remained optimistic, but wary nonethless.

"Despite an earnings season that has been much better than expected so far, investors appear to be again focusing on more macro concerns," they said.

"Europe and China are dominant concerns but US growth sustainability is also being questioned."

Company results in the coming week include Pfizer and Motorola (Tuesday), Comcast and Time-Warner (Wednesday), and Viacom, Kraft, AIG and General Motors (Thursday).

Even if company earnings are driving sentiment, eyes will still be on data releases covering April in the coming week: consumer spending (Monday), the ISM manufacturing index (Tuesday), industrial orders (Wednesday); and the ISM services survey (Thursday).
Source : Economics Times

Indian Stock Market : Sensex opens higher; metals, banks, auto gain

The Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex opened in the positive terrain led by gains in metals, banks and auto sectors. According to dealers, the market may turn choppy later in the day due to lack of support from Asian peers.

At 09:17 a.m., the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex was at 17211.14, up 80.47 points or 0.47 per cent. It touched a high of 17216.87 and low of 17134.85 in opening trade.

The National Stock Exchange's Nifty was at 5193.40, up 4.40 points or 0.08 per cent. It touched a high of 5198.30 and low of 5188.90 in trade so far.

The BSE Midcap Index was up 0.49 per cent and the Smallcap Index gained 0.27 percent.

Source : Economics Time

Australian share market on four-day losing streak

THE Australian share market lost ground today for the fourth consecutive day as investor worries about Europe trumped a rebound in the US overnight.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 12.7 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 4,171.9, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 13.7 points, or 0.3 per cent, lower at 4,237.6.
On the ASX 24, at 1629 AEDT the December share price index futures contract was 12 points stronger at 4,181 with 36,735 contracts traded.
Trading volumes had been light and about 30 per cent below average values, with national turnover of 1.65 billion shares worth $4.25 billion, with 380 stocks up, 545 down and 357 unchanged.
Macquarie Private Wealth client adviser James Rosenberg said the level of today's light volumes had been the case for most days for the past few weeks.
While Europe's debt crisis was weighing on the market, a positive for Australia was talk about China allowing more credit liquidity, with Shanghai's stock market rising on Thursday subsequently, he said.

"We have a substantially greater reliance on what happens in China than what happens in Greece," Mr Rosenberg told AAP.
European leaders last week put together a deal to wipe 100 billion euros ($A133.17 billion) from Greek debt, as well as strengthen banks and doubling the firepower of the European Union bailout fund.
Greece is now planning to hold a referendum on the bailout package, including unpopular austerity measures, which has reignited concerns about the extent of the Greek debt fallout.
Locally, most sectors of the ASX were down, with gold companies and consumer discretionaries bucking the trend.
ANZ Bank reported a 19 per cent lift in full year profit to a record $5.36 billion, which was below expectations. The bank said market volatility and consumer caution was likely to be a factor for some time.
ANZ shares performed the worst of the major banks, closing 41 cents, or 1.96 per cent, lower at $20.49.
All the banks were softer, after earnings reports that had been slightly below expectations and "muted" outlook statements for credit growth, Mr Rosenberg said.
Wealth manager Perpetual retreated 56 cents to $20.74 after it forecast a drop in first half underlying profit due to weakening equity markets.
News Corporation lifted 70 cents, or 4.24 per cent, to $17.21, and its non-voting shares were up 59 cents at $16.77. The company maintained earnings guidance for 2011/12, after reporting a "great start" the current financial year.
Supermarket giant Woolworths rebounded and gained 52 cents to $23.91 after the competition watchdog admitted it might be tough to prove the company was abusing its market dominance by stocking more Home brand products.
Rival Wesfarmers - owner of Coles - lost 48 cents to $31.40.
Shares in Logistics group Brambles climbed six cents to $6.49 as it launched an aerospace division for its CHEP pallet business.
Building products maker Boral dropped eight cents to $3.60 after it said its first half performance in financial 2012 would be broadly similar to the second half of financial 2011.
Fashion retailer Country Road was untraded at $3.20 as it said sales so far this financial year were down and it expected difficult trading conditions to carry on through to Christmas.
On Wall Street on Wednesday, stocks rebounded after the US Federal Reserve's policymakers kept ultra-low interest rates and said they were prepared to do more if needed to stimulate the sluggish economy.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 178.08 points, or 1.53 per cent, to 11,836.04.

Source : http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/australian-share-market-on-four-day-losing-streak/story-fn7j19iv-1226184966411