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Huge opportunity is higher risk recovery stocks: Southeastern

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
A flight to safety brought about ongoing investor uncertainty in the wake of the GFC means that a wealth of well managed, competitively entrenched and soundly financed companies can be bought at a significant discount to their intrinsic value, according ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange at noon AGO - ATLAS IRON LTD - up two cents, or 1.3 per cent, at $1.57 Atlas Iron annual general meeting ARI - ARRIUM - in a trading halt, last traded at 80 cents Steelmaker Arrium is set to announce ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... $4.13 and Rio Tinto was up 20 cents to $57.06. National turnover was 266 million securities worth $461.5 million, with 351 stocks up, 203 down and 240 unchanged.

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... Qantas shares were up 0.25 cents at $1.3425. National turnover was 270 million securities worth $379 million, with 270 stocks up, 261 down and 250 unchanged.

Bank dividends under threat

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... further exposure to bad debt, according to Five Oceans Asset Management's Chris Selth. Strong yields have contributed to bank stocks being one of the success stories of the year. ANZ is up 24%, Commonwealth Bank is up 16% and Westpac and NAB up 12% and ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... was nine cents higher at $25.99, Westpac was 18 cents up at $25.37 and Commonwealth Bank gained 19 cents to $57.04. US stocks finished flat on Friday under the shadow of earnings disappointments but tempered by a slightly better-than-expected estimate ...

Market Wrap

AMP  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... cent, to 4,472.4 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 37.2 points, or 0.82 per cent, to 4,496.3 points. US stocks finished flat under the shadow of earnings disappointments but tempered by a slightly better-than-expected estimate of economic ...

Market wrap late AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australian stocks opened flat after mixed leads from Wall Street and European markets. At 1018 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was flat at 4,510.5 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had fallen 0.6 points, or 0.01 per cent ...

High frequency trading benefits: UK government

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... abuse of the market. Many in the financial services industry believe that HFT - an algorithm-based method of trading where stocks are held for as little as a few seconds - has led to unexplained 'flash crashes' such as the one experienced on 6 May 2010 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher after European stocks close mixed and the US markets made modest gains following better-than-expected jobless claims and durable goods figures. At 0714 AEDT on Friday, the December share price ...