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No risk of a double-dip recession: survey

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... at 7 per cent, and Japan at 6 per cent. Australian fund manager Principal Global Investors is especially bullish on US equities. Grant Forster, chief executive, said he expects growth of between 10 and 20 per cent in the S&P 500 index. "The US equities ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... opened firmer and continued to perform strongly. "There's been more risk appetite overnight, largely as a result of US equities and the signs of interests in US markets," he said. "That reflected back into risk markets overnight and has helped the Australian ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... seemed to have made up their mind. Bloomberg cites data from Investment Company Institute showing that net inflows into US equities amounted to US$4.92 billion in the week ended 9 February - the most in almost two years -- against only US$928 million ...

Spot the bubble before they burst

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... that will always have the potential to devastate investors. The industry veteran cited previous painful bubbles in US equities, gold, Japanese equities and Japanese residential property, all of which have suffered major falls from peak to trough during ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... including Coca-Cola Amatil and WorleyParsons have limited declines on the Australian sharemarket after heavy falls in US equities overnight. At 1204 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 7.9 points, or 0.16 per cent, at 4,938.1, while the broader ...

Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
The S&P/ASX200 index, currently sitting at around 4,800 points, could reach 6,000 this year, company director and well-regarded economist Don Stammer told the audience of last week's Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum. The 20-per cent plus upside ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... night. Oh yes, these very words came out of his mouth... but is this really what's in his mind? Reports show that US equities took this as a "downer". And why not? Because here we have the Fed boss telling all and sundry that, "Houston, we still have ...

Speck of sand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... loss on the global economy and financial markets if Egypt turns to sand if you ask me. And so I wasn't surprise when US equities turned out a positive performance after that Friday night shocker. The S&P 500 index closed 0.8 per cent up on the last day ...

QIC sees stronger Aus equities in 2011

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
Despite troubles abroad and a challenging environment for the financial sector, one Australian equities manager says local blue chip stocks are poised for gains in 2011. Paul Barnes, managing director of Australian equities at Queensland Investment ...

Fear and thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... Street overnight and then... buy backs. At lot of things went through my mind when I powered up the net and saw that US equities were tumbling -- down by more than 1.5 per cent around 1PM in NY. How could I get it so wrong? Fears should have subsided ...