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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... last month. Its services index fell to 53.8 from 55.4 in May. Economists polled by Thomson Reuters forecast 55.0. A reading above 50 indicates growth. When the markets settled, the Dow was up 57.14 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 9,743.62. The broader Standard ...

Telstra unveils defensive growth strategy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... capital growth through growth assets. The option was launched on 1 July. The objective of the option is to earn returns above cash over the medium term, through exposure to flexible ranges of growth and defensive assets. Chief executive Martin Crowe ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... cent, the lowest level since July 2009, with charts showing the benchmark oversold. In thin trade, the Nikkei rose further above support at 9,200, roughly a 50 per cent retracement of the move up from its March 2009 low to its high in April. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... 11,288 contracts. IG Markets' research analyst Ben Potter said the resources sector was the only one holding the market above water during a quiet trading day ahead of the US Independence Day market holiday on Monday. "The news about Centennial Coal ...

Cooper recommends info dashboard for members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... dashboard. Specifically, how to display net investment return target (after tax), which should be shown as a percentage above the consumer price index (CPI) over a rolling 10 year period. The outcomes should have a standard way of projecting liquidity ...

Bad news bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... could argue that the June reading still indicates that manufacturing activity in America continues to expand - it remains above the 50 expansion/contraction line. But similar weakening in the manufacturing indices in China and Europe are no good future ...

452 Capital returns 32pc in Morgan's absence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
452 Capital's Australian share strategy posted more than 32 per cent in gross returns, just slightly above its benchmark, while co-founder Peter Morgan remains on extended leave for health reasons. Morgan, who also acts as an investment director, has ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... France, the CAC 40 fell 86.43 points, by 2.37 per cent, to 3,555.36. TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average ended flat, holding above a key support level in choppy trade after losing three per cent in the past two days. A wave of short-covering petered out in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... completely." Mr Kimber said the market was hoping the government would increase the rate companies start paying tax on profits above six per cent and abolish the 40 per cent rebate for loss making projects. Rio Tinto climbed $1.25, or 1.77 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... increasingly dark and worries about the euro zone flared again. Support for the benchmark Nikkei had been expected to stay firm above 9,800, the level of its 25-day moving average, even after it failed to to hold above a chart retracement on Tuesday. ...