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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... S&P/ASX200 index adding 41 points to 5,476.8 and the broader All Ordinaries index gaining 36.8 points to 5,455.9. NEW YORK - US stocks were mixed but some selling pressure continued to dog the technology sector amid worries about overvaluations. The ...

Perpetual equity strategy awarded $200 million mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... Investments' concentrated equity strategy. The strategy is managed by Paul Skamvougeras and it typically holds a small number of stocks with high conviction, across a range of sectors. For the three years ending 31 March 2014, the Wholesale Concentrated ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... lunch in Brisbane. In Australia, the market on Wednesday followed the global trend and has finished lower, with mining stocks taking the biggest hit. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 45.6 points, or 0.83 per cent, at 5,435.8 points, while the ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... also had a negative lead from Wall Street, where weaker than expected earnings from insurance giant AIG and falls in tech stocks caused a sizeable drop. All sectors of the local market fell in early trade. Among the major banks, Commonwealth Bank was ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... cent, to 5,481.4, and the broader All Ordinaries index gaining 19.3 points, or 0.35 per cent, to 5,462.7. NEW YORK - US stocks retreated as a sell-off in Twitter revived worries about the tech sector and disappointing earnings from insurer AIG hit financial ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... in the mining sector. After opening more than half a per cent higher, the market was relatively flat at noon. Resources stocks dropped after the release of data showing a weaker trade surplus in March, due to weaker exports. BHP Billiton was down 11 ...

New business targets investors' bad habits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... director Simon Russell, one example of this is "disposition effect", which he described as "a tendency for investors to sell stocks that rise, and hold those that fall." "We celebrate a small victory on the profitable trade and console ourselves that ...

LUCRF divests $5 million of cluster munition and tobacco

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... manufacturers and tobacco companies from its investment portfolios. The fund said that it held $4.5 million in cluster munition stocks and $522,000 in tobacco as of January 31, 2014. LUCRF Super estimates that it will take up to 18 months to divest of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... 0.08 per cent, to 5,462.2. The broader All Ordinaries index added 4.6 points, or 0.08 per cent, to 5,443.4. NEW YORK - US stocks finished higher after struggling to get out of the losing column, shrugging off poor industrial data from China and growing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... points. The broader All Ordinaries index was up 8.4 points, or 0.15 per cent, at 5,438.8 points. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks finished lower as worsening tensions over Ukraine overshadowed a US labour report that showed surprisingly strong jobs growth. ...