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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... on Wall Street. The benchmark NZX-50 index closed down 1.4 per cent, or 41.16 points, at 2,988.98, as it caught up with carnage on overseas markets after missing the damage due to Monday's public holiday.

SMSFs snap up blue chip shares

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... super fund trustees are now placing blue chip shares on the top of their buying list after brushing off last year's market carnage, research shows. With markets on an upward trajectory and investor sentiment turning towards the positive, nearly a third ...

BlueMountain to post record returns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... sell these days following the sector's nightmare run in the past two years. But if there is a silver lining to the market carnage, it is that the hedge funds that did survive adopted their business model to a new norm. BlueMountain is one such fund. ...

For those about to hit rock bottom, we salute you

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... was followed by their 1990 comeback which caused a return to UK recessionary conditions. Analysts now fear what economic carnage will follow next year. "Small wonder that people turn to AC/DC in their millions when the world appears on the brink of chaos," ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) has argued over the past few weeks, the US authorities will eventually be able to stop the carnage. But at what cost? In all likelihood the current initiatives will provide some sort of stability in the markets. But ...

NAB and MLC make headway post sub-prime

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
National Australia Bank and its investment arm MLC managed to wade through the sub-prime carnage to post positive gains in the six months to March. NAB boosted its net profit by 25.8 per cent to $2.7 billion for the first half year and its cash earnings ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... governments will be whether it leads to a return to greater regulation. The re-regulation calls are because after all the carnage caused by lending-without-restrictions it is again left to the traditional banking sector and central banks to clean up ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... to 6005 on a volume of 10,993 contracts. Chris MacDonald, a senior client advisor at ABN Amro Morgans, said the lack of carnage on Wall Street on Friday was providing investors with some reassurance. "The market seems to be soothed by the way the Dow ...

The upside of carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
Is the current sub-prime calamity really another savings and loan crisis in the making, or just market noise? Consensus is that the volatility is more rollercoaster than bear-trend, and as such markets are quite capable of recovering just a quickly. ...

Sub-prime contamination causes market carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... managed to close in the black, with an enormous turnover of $8.63 billion changing hands. "No sector was spared in the carnage," he said.