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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... falling 0.52 per cent and the NASDAQ ended down 0.3 per cent. Also, futures contract prices for key commodities such as gold, silver and oil settled lower in US trading. Mr Heffernan said some investors may have chosen to take profits following the strong ...

Obama re-election to boost healthcare and banking stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... net result of such a policy may well be a continuing of the four-year trend in favour of 'hard assets' such as gold and silver, a possibility that investors may wish to consider as they plan for the future," he explained. The Democrat win also ends speculation ...

Super fund awards natural resources mandate

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... is critical, said Whitten, who had just returned from the Cooper Basin on a research trip. "Last week we also visited a silver project in New South Wales," he said. Managing director Clive Landale, who has been involved in resource markets as a farmer ...

netwealth adopts Morphic Global Opps Fund

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... Energy Group (US, 2.18%), Bob Evans Farms (US, 1.99%), plus emerging markets indices and commodities, in particular gold and silver.

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... will again find their way into risk assets and assets that are considered inflation hedges like precious metals - gold and silver - and out of bonds and money market instruments QE1 worked. The S&P 500 index gained nearly 40% between its announcement ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... the respective index levels just 6.7% and 4.4% away from the all-time high reached way back on 9 October 2007. Gold and silver and oil rose. So did US Treasuries. All because Big Ben did a Super Mario - not only in the QE sense but also in assuring the ...

WA closures signal mining boom end: Veda

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... leading indicator. But according to Shane Oliver, chief economist at AMP Capital, the end of the mining boom should have a silver lining. While there is the risk of a timing mismatch around the end of the investment boom in 2014 and as other sectors ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... endless nightmare go away. Sorry to disappoint but Rome was not built in a day. Healing takes time, it's a process, not one silver bullet. And it's happening as we speak. Just think how clean and healthy government, business and household balance sheets ...

Super asset changes deliver positive return

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... tipping super funds into positive territory for 2011-12 with an annual return of +0.5%. While sitting below inflation, the silver lining is in the contrast with the -7% return delivered by the S&P/ASX 300, according to Alex Dunnin, director of research ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... 2.0%, the S&P 500 declined by 2.2% and the Nasdaq lost 2.4%. It was a similar story for commodities: Gold dropped by 2%, silver 3.6%, copper 2.2%, oil 2.1%. (As an aside, the Fed would still be unmoved by the magnitude of last night's drop). In the absence ...