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Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... cent, at 4,484.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 10.2 points, or 0.23 per cent, at 4,503.8. NEW YORK - US stocks closed with solid gains as the country goes to the polls to choose between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for president, with ...

Returns without volatility, you're not dreamin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... managers] is about beating the benchmark and managing to tracking error limits, which in turn makes them focus on certain stocks and hence just bids up share prices, making these stocks a riskier investment. "However, if you aim at low volatility stocks ...

Western recovery expected to lift Asian stocks

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Hope of recovery in the developed world, improvements in China and Gillard rhetoric around the 'Asian century', have combined to create a golden opportunity for investment in Asia, according to Certitude's Craig Mowll. Mowll, chief executive of the ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Australian stocks have opened flat in quiet trade as market players await a Melbourne Cup day interest rate decision from the central bank. At 1027 AEDT on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 2.7 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 4,471.4 points ...

Market Wrap early AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open flat after Wall Street showed a mixed performance and European stocks slid amid cautious trading on the eve of the US presidential election. At 0635 AEDT on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... Friday's local close of $US1,708.15 per ounce. National turnover was 274.9 million securities worth $375.9 million, with 237 stocks up, 354 down and 253 unchanged.

van Eyk awards small cap managers' highest rating

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... subscribers, and as such the names of rated managers is typically not published, however it advised Financial Standard that stocks currently favoured include: The Ironbark Karara Small Companies Fund and the Ausbil Microcap Fund.

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... October. The 'Wall Street Journal's' MarketBeat offered an explanation in its headline: "Good Jobs Reports = Less QE3 = Stocks Dropping". I don't think this needs any further explaining. It's reverse QE Paradox. Then again, didn't our friend Ben assured ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... fell 13.39 (0.94 per cent) to 1,414.20, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 37.93 (1.26 per cent) at 2,982.13. LONDON - European stocks rose after strong US jobs figures upstaged poor eurozone manufacturing data, while the euro hit a three-week low versus ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... Bush fended off Al Gore without a popular majority, the investment world is watching closely, trying to determine which stocks will win and lose from the result. Milligan, head of global strategy at Standard Life Investments says that in the short-term ...