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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... cent, lower at 5,452.5. The broader All Ordinaries index was down 56.3 points, or 1.02 per cent, at 5,442.2. NEW YORK - US stocks have scored moderate gains following a solid kickoff to earnings season from Alcoa, and Federal Reserve meeting minutes ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... first. Looking at the indices performance, it seems like we're back to the attack on the momo, smalls, biotech and net stocks once more. The Russell 2000's down 1.2%, the Nasdaq's down 1.4%, the DJ Internet Composite down 3%, the Nasdaq Biotechnology ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... a one per cent fall in the gold sector and a slight fall in the iron ore price to just under $US96 per tonne. Resources stocks were mostly lower on Tuesday, with Fortescue Metals down 11 cents to $4.44 per share, BHP Billiton dropping 12 cents to $37.65 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... 0.11 per cent, at 5,518.9. The broader All Ordinaries index lost 5.5 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 5,506.3. NEW YORK - US stocks have fallen, retreating from last week's records as analysts point to profit taking and predictions from some experts that ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... despite a soft lead from overseas. US markets were closed on Friday for the Independence Day public holiday and European stocks mostly finished last week on a negative note, but Morgan's senior private client adviser Bill Chatterton said local investors ...

Investors Mutual gets in on LIC act

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... ready-made diversified portfolio of Australian shares. QV Equities Limited (ASX: QVE) invests in companies outside the top 20 stocks in the ASX 300, an approach which Investors Mutual founder and investment director Anton Tagliaferro hopes will appeal ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... healthy 288,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 per cent from 6.3 per cent in May. LONDON - European stocks ended the week on a muted note as traders paused after the previous day's solid gains that followed forecast-busting US ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... term, be the best returning asset class. However, at this point in the cycle, with interest rates at record lows, bank stocks arguably over-valued and concerns over the future of the mining sector, there are doubts over whether the performance of the ...

Adviser appetite for infrastructure investments increasing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... risk/reward pay-off which Frankish said makes the sector most compelling to retail investors. While utilities and infrastructure stocks are yielding roughly the same as the wider equity market at around 5.5%, the defensive qualities of the sector means ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... be coming back into the market. "Investors are trying to take advantage of some fairly cheap valuations on some of these stocks and the banks are doing okay as well after we have gone through a bit of a slow period," he told AAP. The market will also ...