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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... points, or 1.9 per cent to 4,839.18. NEW YORK - Wall Street has ended a stunning session with a huge fall, the Dow Jones Industrials Average plunging more than 770 points after the $US700 billion financial bailout plan was knocked back by Congress. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... Republican and Democrat congressmen alike. Stocks ended mixed, with big financial companies lifting the Dow Jones Industrials index more than 120 points, but worries about smaller banks and parts of the technology sector took much of the market lower. ...

Game on for sustainability

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... companies, which account for more than 56 per cent of the index followed by 'basic materials' at more than 22 per cent and 'industrials' at almost 6.5 per cent. For example, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Westpac Banking Corporation, National Australia Bank ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... 4,651.89. NEW YORK - Wall Street rallied in a stunning late-session turnaround, shooting higher and hurtling the Dow Jones industrials up 410 points following a report that the federal government may create an entity that will take over banks' bad debt. ...

America on its knees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... day. The overnight sell-off saw more than three years' worth of gains wiped out from the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrials index as investors speculated which mole's head would be the next to pop out and whacked by the US Treasury/Fed tandem. The ...

Where to in global equities?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... of deep analysis when you're looking at stock positions." Rather, BlackRock's shifting money away from financials, industrials and consumer cyclicals to consumer staples and telecoms. "We don't want to play cyclical recoveries here, we'd rather invest ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... market," he said. "In general terms, there have been gains across the board, with the insurers and banks benefiting, and industrials generally are quite strong." QBE Insurance was leading the way, gaining 95 cents, or 4.08 per cent, to $24.23. Among ...

AMP Cap hires Asian stock specialist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... in net asset value over the same period. The fund allocated 27 per cent to China's financial sector, 17 per cent to industrials and 11 per cent to the energy sector at the end of June. This appointment means the AMP Capital Asian equities team consists ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... trade cautiously, but the market was considerably calmer than the first four sessions of the week, when the Dow Jones industrials rose or fell by triple digits each day. The Dow fell 51.70, or 0.45 per cent, to 11,326.32, ending the week down 0.39 per ...

Treasury's FUM hit by value managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... not include a high allocation to resources stocks which had hampered overall performance. "If you look at the All Industrials, this index was down 26.7 per cent at the year end 30 June. If you compare that to a quarterly basis, the All Industrials was ...