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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... cut its profit forecast and said it is losing subscribers following a price increase in July. After the market closed, Amazon Inc plunged 17 per cent after its earnings came in far below Wall Street's forecasts. The market was also pulled lower by a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... the Federal Reserve's "Beige Book" portrayed a still-weak economy in September, as big losses from tech stars Apple and Amazon pulled the Nasdaq down more than 2.0 per cent. Reports of ongoing discord over the coming comprehensive rescue plan for the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... nearly five per cent Wednesday. Tech stocks were dragged down by a 1.62 per cent drop in Apple and a 3.16 per cent fall in Amazon, a day after Amazon launched its assault on Apple's iPad with a new tablet that sells for less than half the iPad price. ...

AllianceBernstein bullish on molecular medicine

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... 2010 to US$4.6 billion by 2015. It also has investments in storage company Isilon, graphics processing firm Invidia and Amazon, all of which are likely to capitalise on the growth. Amazon is benefiting from the extra capacity it has in its web services ...

Middle East mole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... September 2008. And why not, the recent reporting season shows that most US firms - despite disappointing results from Ford and Amazon - continue to beat profit estimates. And why not, the US economy has woken up from its summer slumber. Real GDP growth ...

Regal bags hedge fund award

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... Management has won the Best Asian Relative Value Fund Award at the annual Eurekahedge Asian ceremony in Singapore. Regal's Amazon Market Neutral fund aims to provide returns with low correlation to equity markets. "Regal has always sought to provide ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... the day failed to galvanise traders. Home resales posted their biggest increase in 26 years in September and shares of Amazon.com rode to a new high after the internet retailer's earnings and forecasts came in much stronger than expected. Amazon's report ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... capped any major gains. In the US overnight major indices rose moderately although the NASDAQ climbed nearly one per cent as Amazon beat analyst estimates by selling a wider array of products online. Falling oil and gold prices hit international resource ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... and an approaching long weekend in Australia for the Anzac Day holiday. Mr Muller said cautious outlooks from Apple and Amazon, which reported after the market had closed in the US overnight, also had pulled back US futures. "Our market has pulled back ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... including China's $US3 billion investment in private equity powerhouse Blackstone Group, but rising oil curbed gains. Shares of Amazon rose 7.9 per cent after Citigroup raised its price target on the stock, lifting the Nasdaq, while technology stocks ...