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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... with the S&P/ASX200 index up 7.7 points to 5436.7 and the all ordinaries 10.6 points stronger at 5409.2. NEW YORK - US stocks ended higher on Friday as sharply lower oil prices and strong profits from AIG outweighed investors' worries that Walt Disney ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was off 30.2 points at 5429.0, while the all ordinaries lost 26.5 points to 5398.6. NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Thursday, led by a drop in the shares of big drug makers and health-care companies as investors worried about ...

Schroders casts net outside MSCI World

... Explaining why the fund is benchmark unaware, Cooper pointed out that the current index is broadly 50 per cent made up of US stocks and at one point 30 per cent of technology stocks before the tech bust. "It goes back to the concept of active value. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... S&P/ASX200 index finished down 32.4 points at 5459.2, while the all ordinaries dropped 31.6 points to 5425.1. NEW YORK - US stocks advanced on Wednesday as a jump in technology stocks and news that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will step down ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... ordinaries also reached a closing record of 5,456.7, up 46.6 points and hit an intraday record of 5460.4. NEW YORK - US stocks rallied on Tuesday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average to a fresh all-time high as investors bet midterm elections would ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
... of 5,410.10, up 13.2 points, defeating Friday's record of 5,396.90 as well as its previous intraday high. NEW YORK - US stocks ended significantly higher on Monday as investors welcomed a flurry of corporate takeovers ahead of US congressional elections ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
... S&P/ASX200 index closed 22.6 points higher at 5,432 while the all ordinaries index gained 19.8 points to 5,396.9. NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Friday, with the Dow posting its longest losing streak in more than a year, as jobs data showing strength in ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... $37.95, Commonwealth dropping 26 cents at $47.43, Westpac sliding 27 cents to $23.74 and ANZ also lost 22 cents at $29.32. US stocks also fell overnight on concerns over the health of the country's economy, after a report showed manufacturing growth ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... S&P/ASX200 index rose 32.0 points to record 5416.4 and the all ordinaries gained 30.7 points to a record 5383.6. NEW YORK - US stocks fell after a report showing manufacturing growth had almost ground to a halt raised concerns about the health of the ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
... S&P/ASX200 index closed 15 points weaker at 5384.4, while the all ordinaries slipped 14.8 points to 5352.9. NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Tuesday as disappointing consumer confidence data overshadowed positive corporate earnings reports. According to ...