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Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... blogomentaries on Wall Street this morning has got my goose. You don't have to go pass Bloomberg's headline, "Most U.S. Stocks Retreat Amid Dell's Decline, Comments From Fed Officials" to know why. But in case, you didn't get it first time, here's Reuters' ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... Tinto was 71 cents higher at $74.10. At 1200 AEST national turnover was 785.49 million shares worth $1.76 billion, with 467 stocks up, 334 down, and 325 steady.

Resolution Capital opens US office with senior hire

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... funds management businesses and has worked in the US and the UK. "The Resolution investment strategy is to look at property stocks by sector first which differentiates us from our competitors who focus on geography first," Promisel told Financial Standard. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... European markets rallied on Friday after France, Belgium, Spain and Italy banned the speculative practice of short-selling stocks to combat "false rumours" that have destabilised them. The US market also ended higher on Friday as trade calmed at the ...

Black swans test strength of portfolio construction

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... over time, Robinson said. In the global financial crisis of 2008, commodities that usually have a negative correlation to stocks - moving in reverse - instead shot up to a positive correlation of 0.5 as everything dived in price except for US Government ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... European markets rallied on Friday after France, Belgium, Spain and Italy banned the speculative practice of short-selling stocks to combat "false rumours" that have destabilised them. Sentiment was further boosted after Italy approved a 45 billion euro ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... financial crisis showed how different markets had performed. "Assets moved in proportion to their betas," he said. "US stocks went down, emerging markets went down even more, corporate bonds went down - but not as much - and Treasury bonds rose," he ...

Digit says recession averted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... back with a vengeance. Apart from reports that the French rumour was just that, you'll read in today's headlines that, "Stocks Surge on Tempered Concern About Recession" (Bloomberg). And financial markets reached this conclusion because? Because of that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... cent, at 4,140.8, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 3.9 points, or 0.09 per cent, at 4,203.5. NEW YORK - US stocks made another dramatic comeback after a stunning fall on Thursday, in another day of extreme volatility in markets around ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... 24, the September share price index futures contract was 60 points lower at 4034 points with 24,611 contracts traded. US stocks plummeted more than four per cent Wednesday, more than wiping out the gains of Tuesday's rebound as European debt troubles ...