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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
The Australian market looks set to open lower after Wall Street lost more than 3.5 per cent and European stocks also fell sharply overnight. At 0714 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was down 76 points at 3,890. In economic ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... 24, the December share price index futures contract was 86 points lower at 4,000 points, with 22,680 contracts traded. US stocks dived after the Federal Reserve announced mostly expected measures to support the US economy, and painted a grim economic ...

Hunter Hall Asian value fund earns three stars

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... with a focus on under researched and undiscovered Asian businesses in a highly concentrated portfolio of no more than 50 stocks. "There are a few surprises in store for investors familiar with Hunter Hall's other equities products," said Justine Gorman ...

Twisting the blues away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... repayments. And as for Wall Street, lower long-term interest rates reduce (further) the attraction of bonds relative to stocks. Not only this, lower bond yields increases stock market valuation by increasing discounted cash flows due to a lower discount ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... cent, at 4,071.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index was 28.8 points, or 0.7 per cent, better at 4,153.6. NEW YORK - US stocks dived Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced new measures to support the flagging economy that left investors cold. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... 21,357 contracts traded. National turnover was 829.9 million shares changing hands for $2.1 billion, with about one in three stocks falling. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said a late fall on Wall Street overnight ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
Australian stocks look set to open higher despite mixed movements on international markets overnight. At 0707 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was 33 points at 4,078. Overnight, the Dow Jones closed just 7.65 points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... weakest company on the ASX 100 was Paladin Energy, which dived 5.4 per cent to $1.49. Investors bought into health care stocks, which allowed the typically defensive sector to outperform, rising 0.35 per cent. Making news on Tuesday, more than 4000 of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... per cent, at 4,081.5, while the broader All Ordinaries index fell 65.8 points,or 1.56 per cent, to 4,164.1. NEW YORK - US stocks slid Monday, snapping a five-session winning streak as traders worried about a possible Greek public debt default and eurozone ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... markets opening this week, our market has just eased off," he said. All sectors shed value, with about nine out of ten stocks falling. Financial stocks pulled the local bourse down the most, falling 2.3 per cent on uncertainty about local banks' exposure ...