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Can cheap, high quality stocks can still be found?

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... stocks, he said the portfolio was comprised of around 75 companies in sectors including software manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and insurers. While he acknowledged that the strategy is likely to underperform during strongly rising markets, Marx ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street gained on positive US jobless figures. At 0754 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 12 points at 5,127. In economic news on Friday, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... from Fortescue Metals Group, Woodside Petroleum and Iluka are due for release. Bank of Queensland and Australian Pharmaceutical Industries publish their interim results, while Wesfarmers will release third quarter retail sales figures. On Wednesday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
The Australian market is set for a flat start despite an unexpectedly strong increase in US consumer spending in February. Wall Street rose slightly, its ninth straight session of gains. At 0800 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures ...

Retirement costs on the rise again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... biscuits (1.7 per cent). Also down were the prices of audio, visual and computing equipment (-4.3 per cent) and pharmaceutical products (-3.5 per cent). There was also a fall in health costs recorded in the quarter. The main contributor was pharmaceutical ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... $66.47. All the major banks were relatively flat. Making news, a cystic fibrosis treatment developed by Australian pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis has received a negative review from advisers to regulators in the United States, sending shares down 41 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... first-half results; Centro Retail Australia has scheduled an extraordinary meeting to vote on new name and Australian Pharmaceutical is due to hold its annual general meeting. In Australia, the market on Monday, closed slightly higher following a firm ...

Obama re-election to boost healthcare and banking stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... patients and may therefore experience an uptick." Birkhold says that lying somewhere between these camps are the pharmaceutical companies, which while likely to experience increased demand as a result of wider funding of healthcare needs, may also feel ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... strategy at Standard Life Investments says that in the short-term, an Obama re-election will give a boost to hospital, pharmaceutical, green energy and infrastructure stocks while a Romney victory will see coal, railroad, bank, defence and auto stocks ...

Quality could replace China volume-play

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
While China is regarded as the global powerhouse for manufacturing, demand for exports has declined in recent years, caused partly by economic slow downs and rising labour costs worldwide. While the volume story might be slowly winding down, companies ...