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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
The Australian market has received negative leads from overseas, with Wall Street indices lower, along with precious and base metals and oil. At 0830 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was 50 points lower at 4,841. ...

Aberdeen fund gets S&P three stars

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has assigned its three-star 'New' rating to the Aberdeen Sustainable Income Fund, which Aberdeen acquired from Credit Suisse Asset Management. The fund's investment strategy also changed in October 2008, when it evolved ...

AQR receives strong ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
Connecticut-based alternative investment management firm AQR Capital Management has received strong ratings from Standard & Poor's Fund and Zenith Partners for the AQR Wholesale DELTA Fund. Zenith assigned a 'Recommended' rating to the fund, noting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
The Australian stock market has received mixed leads from Tuesday night's offshore trading session, with Wall Street closing lower while oil was higher and metals prices were mixed. At 0822 AEDT, on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price ...

Dubai games

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
Cheque's in the mail! This was what Abu Dhabi told Dubai's creditors after making them sweat for almost three weeks. Financial markets cheered. And to borrow Bloomberg's headline, "Stocks Rise, Default Swaps, Dollar Drop Following Dubai Bailout". Maybe ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
The Australian stock market has received a mixed set of leads from overseas during weekend offshore trading. While Wall Street finished higher after investors were buoyed by better-than-expected US retail sales figures, the price of oil and gold eased. ...

Future Fund mulls Transurban investment

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
The Future Fund is considering an investment in toll-road operator Transurban and is in preliminary discussions with the Canadian pension funds that proposed to buy the infrastructure group in October. On October 27, the Canada Pension Plan Investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
Australian shares are likely to open lower after commodity prices declined overnight, and concerns increase about the mounting levels of national debt overseas. At 0659 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
Australian shares may open little changed after mixed leads from US markets. Commodity stocks may decline after the price of raw materials slipped overnight as the US dollar rose. At 0806 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
"Ladies and gentlemen, you're not on Kansas anymore..." (James Cameron's movie, Avatar) But based on financial market's reaction to last Friday's US payrolls report, "we must be over the rainbow!" (Dorothy Gale in the Wizard of Oz). The sun shone, the ...