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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... Commonwealth Property Office Fund (CPA) five weeks after rival Dexus and a Canadian pension fund proposed a buy-out. Engineering group Leighton Holdings lost 17 cents to $16.68 after work safety agency Comcar announced it would launch a Federal Court ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... Fortescue Metals had added 7.5 cents to $4.955. Telstra was four cents higher at $4.96. UGL shares were higher after it's engineering chief Russell Waugh stepped down because of his alleged connection to former employer Leighton Holdings' bribery scandal. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... earnings season gets into full swing, Ms Saly said Downer EDI had gotten the mining sector off to a great start after the engineering company posted a net profit of $204 million for the 2012/13 financial year - an 80 per cent increase on last year. Despite ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... during the past six months continued to affect resources stocks, including companies that provide mining services. Engineering company Ausenco was down 33.72 per cent, or 72.5 cents, to $1.43 after it downgraded its earnings forecast. "That's a business ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... Chinese economic data, while gold prices rebounded from the lowest levels since August 2010. In company activity, German engineering giant Siemens drew a line under its joint venture with Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia. London's FTSE 100 index ...

Former Deutsche PM joins 90 West

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... to trade long short Australian equities. 90 West said he has strong risk management skills stemming from his mining engineering training, industry experience and from managing many different portfolio styles in multiple firms over 20 years.

Aust(Q) merger with AustralianSuper 'in members' interest'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... AustralianSuper's lower costs and range of investment, insurance and pension options. Representing the construction, engineering, maintenance and allied industries, the small Queensland industry fund has 17,000 members and $204 million FUM. Henricks ...

NZ Super takes stand on nuclear weapons

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... explosive devices. Publicly listed companies Babcock & Wilcox, Fluor Corporation, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Jacobs Engineering Group, Serco Group and URS Corporation have been excluded from the portfolio. As at 31 March 2013, these companies accounted ...

Platinum remains bullish on Japan

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... Financial Standard, Neilson said the fund manager was proactively looking for Japanese companies, particularly heavy engineering, retailers, and banks. "I think retailers will start becoming quite interesting. Some of the banks are going to start making ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... Mining stocks fell, with BHP Billiton losing 14 cents to $34.65 and Rio Tinto falling 62 cents to $54.80. Resources engineering group Transfield Services saw its shares plummet to a record low on Tuesday morning after it cut its profit forecast and slashed ...