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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... market has shot up by more than one-and-a-half per cent at noon, with investors using yesterday's falls to lap up cheaper stocks. CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner describes it as a relief rally following Monday's decline. The Aussie bourse ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... equities news is expected on Tuesday. In Australia, the market on Monday finished sharply weaker, dragged down by resources stocks that went ex-dividend, including mining heavyweight BHP Billiton. Every sector, except property, finished in the red as ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
The Australian share market has opened lower in a market affected by large stocks going ex-dividend. At 1045 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 18.4 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 5,067.7, while the broader All Ordinaries index was ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... after healthy gains in the previous session while Chinese data showed growth in manufacturing activity had slowed. Tokyo stocks closed 0.41 percent, or 47.02 points, higher at 11,606.38, as a weak yen helped the market recoup early losses sparked by ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton was 28 cents poorer at $36.79, and Rio Tinto eased 96 cents to $66.09. Among other stocks, broadcaster Ten Network lifted 1.75 cents, or 5.3 per cent, to 34.75 cents amid speculation that Seven Group chairman ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... per cent, higher at 5,036.6 while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 31.3 points, or 0.62 per cent, at 5,053.1. US stocks have closed more than one per cent higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 175.24 points, or 1.26 per cent, higher ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... traded. "It looks like a nice steady day," Burrell Stockbroking director Richard Herring said. The market opened higher after stocks in the United States posted strong gains on reports of surprisingly robust new home sales and consumer confidence. Locally ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... at 5,003.6 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 50.9 points, or 1.0 per cent, to 5,021.8 points. US stocks closed decisively higher after strong reports on consumer confidence and the housing market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Perpetual shares comeback

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... management sector - is linked in to investment markets, which have improved in line with its share price, he said. With stocks such as Perpetual's, "you want to buy during a bear market and sell them during a bull market," Whitehouse explained. "If there ...

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... who use a passive approach are essentially guaranteeing below-benchmark performance. The quant model works by grouping stocks not by sector, as fund managers traditionally distinguish types of company, but by other fundamental defining qualities such ...