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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
The Australian share market was higher at noon on Thursday, led by BHP Billiton as investors reacted positively to the knockback of the mining giant's bid for the world's largest fertiliser market. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was slightly higher at noon, after a subdued lead from Wall Street overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 12.8 points, or 0.28 per cent, at 4,635.7, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen ...

Mixed results for US industry giants

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
Despite strong results on face value, US investors were largely unimpressed with the third quarter earnings reported by some of the industry's leading lights overnight. BlackRock, the world's largest fund manager, reported higher than expected profits ...

Future Fund offloads Telstra shares

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
The $67 billion-plus Future Fund has sold 113.6 million Telstra shares - bringing its holding in the telecom giant down from 10.9 to 10 per cent. At a senate estimates hearing yesterday, the Future Fund Board of Guardians said it had sold the shares ...

State Street lifted by passive strategies, ETFs

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
State Street, one of the true global investment management giants, reported third quarter results overnight, with the Boston-based company growing profits compared to both the previous quarter and last year. Assets under management rose to US$1.9 trillion ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
For a while there I thought that October would just sail past smoothly - just like this year's September proved that it is not always the worst month for equities. Disappointment was all over Wall Street overnight - big time with its tree major stock ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
It was another ho-hum day on Wall Street last night. Nothing much was expected, nothing much transpired. US stocks ended flat in light trading activity as the bond market and government offices closed in celebration of the day Christopher Columbus came ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
The Australian share market was stronger at noon, as news from America buoyed banking stocks. At 1200 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 10 points, or 0.22 per cent, at 4,627.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen 10.6 points ...

Bidding time for AMP

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
With NAB bowing out of the race for AXA APH last week, planners and investors are nervously awaiting AMP's next move. It was AMP after all, which fired the opening salvo in the race for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH) with its original bid for the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
The Australian share market is expected to open higher on Monday in the wake of gains on United States markets and strong Chinese economic data released over the weekend. On Friday, Wall Street lifted as a better-than-expected wholesale inventory report ...