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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher today after US equities gained as the oil price fell and the Federal Reserve chairman indicated the central bank was likely to extend emergency loans to investment firms. Mining and energy stocks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower today after US equities declined overnight as financial companies fell on concerns they may have to raise more capital. At 0723 AEST on the Sydney Futures exchange, the September share price index ...

GMO expands Aus equities team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Global investment management giant GMO has added three senior investment professionals to its Sydney-based Australian Equities team. Geoff Wells, Mark Thompson and Bradley Grehan will bring a combined 40 years of experience to the GMO Australian Equities ...

Volatility hits 5-year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... notwithstanding this just highlights the disconnect between financial market and what is real. VanMac also reports that half of US equities managers remain bearish compared to one-third that are neutral and only 14 per cent that are upbeat. Unsurprisingly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher after US equities and metals, including gold and copper, increased overnight. At 0749 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index futures contract was up 14 points at 5,679. In ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... lower at 5083. Reynolds & Co director Markus Mueller said shares were falling on bad news, including Friday's slump in US equities and the Fed's cut in the discount rate. "There's not much positive news around and there's an enormous amount of bad news ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... gold reached record prices overnight, encouraging investors to buy resource stocks. The Australian market followed US equities, which advanced overnight also after credit rating agency Standard & Poor's said write-downs in financial institutions had ...

Suncorp/Tyndall shifts to enhanced indexing

Just more than three months after Suncorp/Tyndall's Australian equities team left to set up a boutique, the group has signed up Russell's transition management team to run its $3 billion-plus equities portfolio under a new enhanced indexing model. Managing ...

BlackRock fund treads allocation balance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... Hudson predicts US growth stocks to outperform value stocks, American equities to top their European counterparts and US equities to leap ahead of bonds, among others. But far from standing still, Blackrock confirms that it is keeping an eye on market ...

UBS Aus equities will deliver: Shields

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
UBS has completed its Australian equities team restructure after appointing analysts Jeremy Bendiech and Shane Fitzgerald to the group. These appointments follow the departure of Paul Fiani and four senior members of the firm's Australian equities team ...