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Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... Continental rose 1.6 per cent, with both stocks rallying from early losses on Tuesday and big declines on Monday. General Motors added 0.8 per cent as chief executive Mary Barra rebuffed talk of a potential merger with Fiat Chrysler. Barra confirmed ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... 5,793. NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks have notched solid gains following the launch of Apple's smartwatch and a General Motors announcement of $US5 billion ($A6.4 billion) in share buybacks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 138.94 points (0.78 per ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... materials company notched earnings per share of $US1.98, two cents above analyst estimates. Shares soared 4.4 per cent. General Motors dipped 1.2 per cent as third-quarter net income fell 14.3 per cent to $US1.47 billion on weak performance in Europe ...

Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... hundreds of billions of dollars. From 2000 to 2011, Exxon also invested $10 billion in its Russian operations. General Motors GM sold 258,000 vehicles in Russia last year, for a market share of more than 9 percent. That's slightly down from its 288,000 ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... looks set to open higher despite a mixed performance on Wall Street following a jump in US pending home sales and General Motors' announcement of another massive car recall. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the September share price index futures contract was ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... expectations and a report showing US factory orders rose 0.7 per cent in April, slightly above the 0.5 per cent forecast. General Motors rose 1.2 per cent after May car sales jumped 13 per cent, while Ford Motor gained 0.7 per cent on a three per cent ...

Buffett discloses new Verizon investment

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... shade more than 4 million shares from its previous 405,000 shares. Buffett's company sold some of its shares in General Motors. The car maker is dealing with recalls of several models, but Berkshire still held 30 million shares in March, down from 40 ...

Capital adds portfolio manager to ETOP strategy

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... de Oliveira, Laurentius Harrer and Shaw Wagener. Holstein was previously managing director of global equities at General Motors Asset Management in New York. ETOP aims to provide equity-like returns with lower volatility by investing in a broad range ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... which is a proxy for how many workers are being laid off, is now near where it was before the Great Recession. General Motors rose after the US government said it expects to sell its remaining stake in the company by the end of the year. LONDON - European ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... September. Analysts expected the index to decline to 55.0. The three largest US car manufacturers, Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, posted double-digit percentage gains. Locally,, in economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases ...