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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... share market is weaker than expected in early trade due to a fall in iron ore prices and weak consumer confidence. Local stocks had been expected to open flat or slightly higher after a steady session in the US overnight and European stocks rose. However ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... weather in autumn and weak consumer confidence have caused in weaker than expected sales in recent months. Health care stocks were also weaker, with CSL down 54 cents at $69.95 and Ramsay Health Care 74 cents lower at $44.96.

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... could go wrong, it will - 2,000 here we come! It'll get there. And where Wall Street goes the world follows - European stocks are at six year highs and Asian ones at their highest in three years. You, I and Irene know how we got here. We got here through ...

Investors return to active global equities managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... are more popular." The second factor is decreasing pair-wise stock correlations, which measure the tendency of any two stocks in an index to move in line with each other. Data from Citi shows long-term trend stock correlations have dropped from above ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... intra-day record high while and benchmark indices in Paris, Milan, Madrid and Lisbon jumping by over 1.0% while in Athens, stocks powered ahead by nearly 3.0%. That may be but... the euro - another main variable to future inflation and growth - hardly ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... as investors take a cautious approach ahead of an anticipated rate cut by the European Central Bank. Mining and energy stocks were the main movers, due to a rise in iron ore prices and Oil Search's increased full year production guidance. But even those ...

Dynamic approach key to low volatility investing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... portfolio manager Dino Davis warned that low volatility investing is not as easy as simply investing in low volatility stocks. "Volatility is dynamic," Davis explained. "Utilities and healthcare are not always low volatility and energy stocks have periods ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... dropping 38.8 points to 5,479.7 and the broader All Ordinaries index shedding 38.7 points to 5,460.5. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks retreated from the previous day's records as investors looked ahead to Thursday's European Central Bank meeting and Friday's ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... cents to $33.63, and Commonwealth Bank weakened 40 cents to $81.86. The biggest losses were in health and discretionary stocks. Jobs website Seek was 50 cents, or three per cent, lower at $16.67 and Sonic Healthcare was 27 cents or 1.5 per cent, down ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
The Australian share market is off to a mixed start for the week. Stocks seesawed in the first hour of trade as investors focused on ongoing weakness in iron ore prices and better-than-expected Chinese manufacturing data. "It will most likely be a cautious ...