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Focus on quality: T. Rowe Price

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... There's nothing economic about it. It's simply the rotation out of what are the "quality" sectors, especially consumer staples and health care, to whatever sectors were down the most," he said. The pace in which some fund managers are exploiting the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... from Wall Street and lower commodities prices overnight, but some buoyancy was provided by banks, miners and consumer staples stocks. At 1201 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 24.1 points, or 0.61 per cent, at 3,914.6, while the broader All ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... bit of a consolidation phase at the moment and the likes of the normal safe sectors and defensive sectors, like consumer staples, are doing well, and the healthcare sector is doing well," Mr Taylor said. "That is a sign that investors are perhaps more ...

iShares adds three

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... iShares, the new ETFs lets Australians tap into iconic global brands in the healthcare, telecommunication and consumer staples industry sectors. Some of these include Nestle, pharmaceutical Pfizer and telco provider AT&T. Co-head of iShares Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... contracts. CMC Markets market analyst David Taylor said investors were feeling secure about banking stocks and consumer staples. "We've had a couple of stocks dragging on the market, but generally speaking we're up," he said. "The banks, Westfield, there ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... United Airlines posted lackluster results. Typical safe-havens for weak economies, like utilities and makers of consumer staples, fell as investors shifted money into harder-hit areas to look for deals. There was also sombre news on the outlook for the ...

Magellan Global tops overseas shares manager list

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... the year. The fund invests in a concentrated portfolio of 25 stocks in global infrastructure, financials and consumer staples sector. Douglass said it is because they know the financials sector in-depth that they were able to escape much of last year's ...

Don't worry, be happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... their bottomlines or try to remain solvent. But others may not be so rationale. For example, industries producing consumer staples, industries producing and/or delivering energy have been battening down their hatches along with other sectors. But will ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
The Australian stock market kept its head above water at noon, with banking and consumer staples stocks performing well and the materials sector was weaker. Local trade pulled back a bit after a positive open following news from the US that a $US700 ...

Where to in global equities?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... stock positions." Rather, BlackRock's shifting money away from financials, industrials and consumer cyclicals to consumer staples and telecoms. "We don't want to play cyclical recoveries here, we'd rather invest in companies with sustainable high return ...