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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... 1210 AEST, Commonwealth Bank had put on 29 cents to $38.95, ANZ had dipped 13 cents to $16.27, National Australia Bank had fallen 14 cents to $22.16 and Westpac had eased seven cents to $19.93. In the headlines on Monday, Coles owner Wesfarmers says ...

Super assets drop to $1.03trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
Super fund assets have fallen to $1.03 trillion at end March 2009, their lowest level since December 2006, according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). Superannuation assets are now down 17 per cent from their peak of $1.24 trillion ...

Up, Down, Flat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... at. Look at the Dow Jones Industrial Index and you could conclude that the sky is starting to fall again. It had already fallen four days in a row. But the Dow tracks the performance of only the 30 largest and publicly-held companies in America. Then ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... in Sydney on Tuesday. The fall in value is an adjustment following the miner's $19 billion rights issue. Its shares have fallen only one per cent, in effect. Mr Taylor said BHP Billiton's exposure to copper was hampering it but Rio was performing well ...

Seven in 10 investors are bullish: ML

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... slowly from last year's markets debris and starting to re-play the equities game. Average cash holdings for instance have fallen 0.5 per cent in one month alone, from 4.9 per cent to 4.3 per cent since April. Equities meanwhile are back in vogue, especially ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... 12 minus 5 equals 7 districts noting no improvement or deterioration. US bond yields. Bulls: 10-year US Treasuries have fallen below 4 per cent last night and rising yields are indicative of the financial system going back to normality. Bears: Treasuries ...

Fully sick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... kind. The reasoning goes that early repayment by the Big Ten exposes other less capitalised institutions that they have fallen short and therefore are worthy of being sold short. And what if the economy double dips and the Big Ten find themselves needing ...

Intl equities on a good run...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... interest rate reductions and quantitative easing are having their desired effect. The Libor rate on 3-month US dollars has now fallen to around 0.70 per cent - significantly cheaper than the 4.82 per cent rate back in October 2008 and is now only about ...

We've left bottom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... interest rate reductions and quantitative easing are having their desired effect. The Libor rate on 3-month US dollars has now fallen to around 0.70 per cent - significantly cheaper than the 4.82 per cent rate back in October 2008 and is now only about ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... cents at $35.00, ANZ had slipped 17 cents to $15.24, Westpac had dropped 31 cents to $19.07 and National Australia Bank had fallen 15 cents to $21.61 at 1203 AEST. The local market will have no lead for trading on Tuesday, with a bank holiday in the ...