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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... had purchased 600,000 of its own shares. Fellow miner BHP Billiton rose 0.46 per cent to $34.71. Typically defensive health care stocks outperformed, up 2.13 per cent, with medical diagnostic company Sonic Healthcare gaining 3.63 per cent to $11.70. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... $11.12. The weakest company on the ASX 100 was Paladin Energy, which dived 5.4 per cent to $1.49. Investors bought into health care stocks, which allowed the typically defensive sector to outperform, rising 0.35 per cent. Making news on Tuesday, more ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... major retail banks. Commonwealth Bank shed the most value of the big four, losing $1.63 or 3.4 per cent to $45.78. Health care was the market's worst performing sector, down 4.2 per cent. Stocks were led lower by Cochlear Ltd, which plummeted 20.1 per ...

Market woes cause adviser headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... non-cyclical stocks would fare best in the current environment. His two picks were private hospital operator Ramsey Health Care and funerals provider Invocare. Ramsay Health Care would benefit from the growing population and was expanding its operations ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... last few weeks after finishing its best first quarter since 1998. Companies in so-called defensive industries like health care, utilities and consumer staples have outperformed lately due in part to concerns that high gas prices will slow the economy ...

Future Fund dabbles in India

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... sectors and regions of the world wherever they spot the most innovative companies. "Our fund will invest in technology, health care, infrastructure, consumer products and financial services," he told Financial Standard. Chandra said the company usually ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... GrainCorp Ltd, with some modifications. Graincorp Ltd shares rose 13 cents to $7.45. Medical services company Primary Health Care Ltd has blamed Queensland's natural disasters for another downgrade to its earnings guidance. The company's shares fell ...

Mind the leadership gap: survey

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... universally panned, with the finance sector's poor results still better than those from all other sectors surveyed: health care, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, information technology, industrials or resources. Andrew Beveridge, Senior Consultant ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... quarter trading update. In earnings releases, first half results are due from Commonwealth Property Office Fund, Primary Health Care Ltd, Brambles Ltd, GWA Ltd, Village Roadshow Ltd, Foster's Group Ltd, Challenger Infrastructure Fund, and Cardno Ltd. ...

Inflated inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... fluctuations in the cost of living and increases of individual prices. We do not produce oil. Nor do we grow food or provide health care... Emerging market central banks have the capacity to deal with inflation in their own economies." In a way, this ...