SYDNEY, Oct 8- Australian shares slipped 0.1 percent in early trade on Monday, with mining stocks losing ground while banks gained, and traders were looking for new momentum drivers as the market consolidated last week's rise to 14- month highs.
MANILA, Oct 8- Following are some market news which could have an impact on the local market. INSTRUMENT LAST PCT CHG NET CHG S&P 500 1460.93 -0.03 -0.470 USD/JPY 78.7 0.06 0.050 10- YR US TSY YLD 1.7428-- 0.000 SPOT GOLD 1778.6 -0.11 -1.880 US CRUDE 89.66 -0.24 -0.220 DOW JONES 13610.15 0.26 34.79 ASIA ADRS 120.65 -0.45 -0.55.
HONG KONG, Oct 8- Hong Kong shares are set to extend a five-session gaining streak on Monday helped by a higher open in Chinese markets that resume trading after a week-long holiday.
TAIPEI, Oct 8- Following are news items and media reports that may affect the Taiwan stock market. >Huawei, ZTE should be kept from US: Congress. >Taiwan Sept CPI dips, rate view seen unchanged.
-Singapore on Friday set a maximum tenure of 35 years for all new residential property loans as part of new measures to cool its housing market.
SYDNEY, Oct 8- Australian shares slipped 0.1 percent in early trade on Monday, in line with a dip on Wall Street where a surprise drop in the U.S. unemployment rate was overshadowed by investor concern about the coming earnings season.
MELBOURNE, Oct 8- Australian shares are expected to open roughly unchanged on Monday, buoyed by a surprise drop in the U.S. unemployment rate, with the market set to consolidate gains that took the benchmark index to a 14- month high last week.
BEIJING-- Foxconn Technology Group denied on Saturday that production was affected at a Chinese factory that makes Apple's iPhones, although both state media and an overseas labor watch group said some workers halted production lines on Friday, apparently over higher quality control standards.
TAIPEI/ SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 6- Foxconn, the Taiwanese made-to-order electronics giant that assembles Apple Inc's products, denied reports that a plant in China was crippled by a strike, saying on Saturday that its production is on schedule at an important time for Apple.
BEIJING-- Foxconn Technology Group denied on Saturday that production was affected at a Chinese factory that makes Apple's iPhones, although both state media and an overseas labor watch group said some workers halted production lines on Friday, apparently over higher quality control standards.
BEIJING-- Foxconn Technology Group said Saturday that production at its central Chinese factory that makes Apple's iPhones was continuing without interruption, denying a labor watch group's report that thousands of workers at the plant had gone on strike.
TAIPEI/ SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 6- Foxconn, the Taiwanese made-to-order electronics giant that assembles Apple Inc's products, denied reports that a plant in China was crippled by a strike, saying on Saturday that its production is on schedule at an important time for Apple.
BEIJING-- A labor watch group says thousands of workers at a Chinese factory that makes Apple's iPhones have gone on strike over increased quality control demands and having to work during an extended national holiday.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 5- Thousands of workers went on strike Friday at a Foxconn plant in central China that makes Apple Inc's iPhone 5, paralyzing production of the smartphone, the rights advocate group China Labor Watch reported. Apple is already struggling with supply constraints, analysts say.
TOKYO, Oct 6- Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co is asking Sharp Corp to turn the Japanese company's small and mid-sized liquid crystal display panel business into a joint venture between the two, Yomiuri newspaper reported on Saturday.
SINGAPORE, Oct 5- The Asian naphtha price recovered on Friday and ended the week at a three-session high of $963 a tonne. Kuwait Petroleum Corp has sealed its December 2012 to November 2013 full-range naphtha contract for with at least one buyer at record premiums of $27 a tonne to Middle East quotes on a free-on-board basis.
HONG KONG, Oct 5- Next Media Ltd, controlled by Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, is in preliminary talks to sell its print business in Taiwan, the company said on Friday, after its share price jumped earlier in the day on media reports of its sale plan.
MUMBAI, Oct 5- Indian shares fell on Friday, snapping a four-day rise, as profit-taking hit recent out-performers such as ICICI Bank, while sentiment was also hit after dozens of erroneous orders by a financial firm triggered a brief halt in the NSE index. The National Stock Exchange index.
SINGAPORE, Oct 5- Taiwan's CPC Corp has cancelled a gasoil sell tender for a cargo to be loaded in November due to an outage at a secondary unit at its 220,000 barrels-per-day refinery in Kaohsiung, traders said on Friday.
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