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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... Japanese reconstruction. The Dow was dragged upward by aluminum giant Alcoa, which added over three per cent, and manufacturing behemoth 3M which rose by 1.6 per cent as the costs of everything from aluminum to tin rose. The prospect of massive reconstruction ...

Platforms bounce back after GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... growth over the same period, reinforcing the disconnect between these distributive markets and the underlying FUM manufacturing market which grew only one per cent. Westpac's BT Financial group is Australia's leading platform player with $90 billion ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... 0.8 per cent in February - a sharp acceleration from the 0.1 per cent increase posted in the previous month. US manufacturing production increased by 0.4 per cent after rising by 0.9 percent surge in January while mining output bounced back by 0.8 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... more than economists expected last week. Ongoing claims dropped to the lowest level since October 2008. A gauge of manufacturing in the mid-Atlantic region jumped in February to the highest point since January 1984. The survey from the Federal Reserve's ...

Dealer groups stay with Japan, eye opportunities

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... volatility as investor sentiment turns to fear as a consequence of nuclear fallout worries and dislocations in Japanese manufacturing programs. However we are not doomsayers," said Hinde. Shadforth Financial Group, currently with $7.5 billion in funds ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... portfolios or through insurance bonds which transfer risk to the coupon holder. Hard hit industries include car manufacturing with Toyota, Honda and Nissan all halting production while they assess the damage. Reinsurance companies were also affected ...

Hunter Hall launches two equity funds

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... said. The fund manager has invested heavily in Indian banks since 2006, and will scan the continent for value in manufacturing, service and distribution businesses, confident that cheap, good value stocks remain available. Hunter Hall currently has around ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... All the signs leading up to Friday night's jobs release pointed to this. Let's count the ways. The ISM indices - manufacturing and non-manufacturing. These are reliable and good leading indicators of the US economy. Both have been flashing expansions ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... day (yesterday's yesterday), financial markets ignored the Institute of Supply Management survey showing that the manufacturing sector continued to expand in February and had been doing so for the past 19 months straight and its employment component ...

Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... action. Never mind the more than positive indication on the economic outlook signalled by the Institute of Supply manufacturing index also released yesterday. No sir, Bloomberg didn't want to spill more ink on it - what, and consume more oil? "The surge ...