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Yield at any cost flawed: GSAM

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
Uncertainty has caused a preoccupation with yield and safe haven stocks, said Goldman Sachs Asset Management's head of Australian equities. Cost pressures, low productivity and the impact of a strong Australian dollar are causing uncertainty, despite ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... had forecast. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 80.75 points to close at 13,575.36. Aluminum giant Alcoa led the 30 stocks in the Dow with a 3.3 per cent surge. "It's not just the jobless claims numbers on their own," said Brian Gendreau, market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
Australian stocks have opened firmer, with the financial sector leading the broader market higher. At 1032 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 7.3 points, or 0.16 per cent, at 4,445.9 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Vanguard makes index switch

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... styles. The CRSP capitalisation-weighted methodology employs the concept of "packeting" which cushions the movement of stocks between adjacent indices and allows holdings to be shared between two indices of the same family. Bowerman said that while there ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
Australian stocks have opened firmer, extending gains from the previous day in response to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) interest rate cut. At 1029 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 19.4 points, or 0.44 per cent, at 4,452.4 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... largest US fertiliser company, Mosaic, said weak demand from China and India have hurt its profits. Mosaic, Dupont and stocks of other companies in the materials industry fell. But utilities and health care stocks, where investors often retreat in a ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... client adviser Bill Bishop said the Australian market had followed strong overseas leads, especially from Europe. European stocks and the euro rallied on Monday as traders tracked Spanish debt strains and the revival of a merger bid by commodities sector ...

Market wrap - AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... 4388.6 points and the broader All Ordinaries index rose two points, or 0.05 per cent, to 4,408.3 points. NEW YORK - US stocks opened the fourth quarter of the year with a solid jump propelled by an unexpected positive reading on manufacturing sector ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
SYDNEY, Sept 28 AAP - Australian stocks have opened marginally weaker as investors had a subdued reaction to the Spanish government's plan to slash the nation's deficit. At 1015 AEST on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 12.8 points, or ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced further steps by the central bank to speed the economic recovery. Stocks were also helped by speculation that the central bank of China would act soon to help the world's second largest economy. The ...