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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... half a per cent lower on Wednesday after dramatic falls on overseas metals markets and a weak start to the US reporting season overnight. By noon (AEDT), both major local indices had drifted further down, with the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index shedding ...

Dividends boom as capital returned to investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... proving to be a dividend dream, as the market delivers a 9% increase to investors in comparison to the previous reporting season, finds one report. Russell Investments has released its high dividend and high value indexes and found the biggest dividend ...

Investors look for business activity signals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... local bourse. Dion Hershan, Goldman Sach's managing director and head of Australian equities said the just gone reporting season revealed an economy adjusting to the changing global environment very rapidly and effectively. "Dividend growth was 9% and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... year profits. In Australia, the market on Monday closed higher, despite paring back earlier gains at the end of reporting season. The S&P/ASX200 index was up 63.3 points, or 1.5 per cent, at 4,263.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 62.7 points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
The Australian share market was higher at noon, led by company results as reporting season continues. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 39.8 points, or 0.95 per cent, at 4,207.4, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 39.8 points ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... slant. Jobs remain sluggish and housing is still in the dumps - but we already knew this. The second quarter reporting season saw around three quarter's of firms beat expectations, a majority have healthy balance sheets and have cash a-plenty which ...

Digit says recession averted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... about to head the R path. You want positive equity market news. Tell me about the second quarter US earnings' reporting season. Then show me that of 88% of firms in the S&P 500 that have already reported, 72% of them beat estimates. That's a rational ...

Cry of the banshee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... see continued improvement in second quarter bottom line results. We'll find out soon enough starting today as reporting season gets underway. Wall Street's relatively subdued reaction to the dismal jobs report tells me it's thinking what I'm thinking ...

Not in the mood for bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... employment numbers for June -- set for release Friday night (Aussie time). This, and the start of the US company reporting season, would set the tone for equities over the coming weeks.

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... been recalculated to show growth of 18 per cent instead of the 13 per cent expected before the first quarter US reporting season got underway. So there... no need to stress. If only someone told Monsieur Dominique these.