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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... Resources, banking and consumer staples stocks were the worst performers on the local market, while the energy sector gained ground on a rising oil price. "It's a steady day, but people are being a bit cautious," Mr Herring said.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... gains, with BHP Billiton up 33 cents to $43.80 and Rio Tinto adding 73 cents to $84.42. By comparison, major banks lost ground, with Commonwealth Bank down 42 cents to $49.48, and Westpac Banking Corporation losing 14 cents to $21.79.

Hunter Hall regains ground

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Fund manager Hunter Hall has outperformed its respective benchmarks across all of its trusts in the year to October, vindicating the group's stockpicking strategies and value investing model. Speaking at an investor briefing yesterday, the group reported ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... contracts traded. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said the market had made up some ground since opening slightly lower. "The fact that the market is up in the face of pretty heavy decline in National Australia ...

Better boring than bubble

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... Frank Villante may work at a fund manager named after the stars but when it comes to investing, his feet are firmly on the ground. Villante, chief investment officer of small-cap specialist Celeste Funds Management, spoke at a media briefing about investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... meetings. KPMG releases its analysis of Australian regional banks' results. On Monday, the Australian share market lost ground as investors cashed in on recent gains in the resources, financial and property sectors. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropped ...

Adviser sentenced to 8yrs imprisonment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
A former financial adviser receives a jail sentence after pleading guilty to 13 fraud charges following an ASIC investigation. Neil Francis Dodd was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in Townsville's District Court after an ASIC investigation concluded ...

Fox elected AFA president

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... as 'Foxy', leads the association at a time when the advice industry is on the cusp of major reforms. "We are in a battle ground. But, we are at the negotiating table and that's going to be the source of achievement. We're not going to win every battle ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... down the yen against the US dollar and the euro. Emerging nations are engaging in guerrilla tactics in order not to give ground to "the enemies". Britain is reportedly going to enlist as soon as tomorrow. And China? It's blaming the US, Europe, Japan ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... the biggest drag on the Australian market after US banks were weaker overnight, he said. But no sector was on positive ground. Mr Taylor said was the local market had had a strong run upwards recently and given it was the end of the month, some investors ...