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Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... mining stocks, with BHP Billiton lifting 20 cents to at $35.87, and Rio Tinto adding 56 cents to $62.48. Among the major banks, National Australia Bank fell 35 cents to $31.19. NAB has unveiled plans to save about $800 million a year by simplifying its ...

Magellan wins $3bn milestone mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... be a hockey stick recovery, we think it will be slow, but the signs are there." Magellan has invested in two large retail banks in the US as well as in Walmart and multinationals such as Coca Cola or McDonald's. The company is positioning its portfolio ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... said. "We're just a touch higher at the moment," he said. "Yesterday what was driving the gains was some big moves in some banks - we had Commonwealth Bank trading through $70. "We just see that there's a little bit of nervousness there in the financial ...

Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... other world equity markets - will keep on tracking. It's, after all, still the best game in town. The Fed and other central banks' accommodative monetary policies will continue to push investors away from cash - where in some markets they earn a negative ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... 11 cents at $4.51, while Rio Tinto had gained $1.15 to $64.38 and BHP Billiton had added 19 cents to $36.01. The big four banks were slightly lower, with ANZ posting the largest fall, down 16 cents at $28.85. Telstra was also down, losing 2.5 cents to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... Australian market looks set to open higher, following gains in US and European stocks after the British and European central banks kept their rates on hold. At 0830 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 5,131. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... gain, to 14,255.84, easily beating the former closing record of 14,164.53 set on October 9, 2007. Locally, the four major banks all opened strongly. ANZ jumped 45 cents to $29.32, Westpac added 37.5 cents to $31.625, Commonwealth Bank gained 76 cents ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... easy for me to see where 'The Street' was headed when it was down low. With all the liquidity created by the major central banks - and 'whatever it takes' pledges, there was nowhere else for equities to go but up, up, up. A corollary to this is that ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... conflicted nature of the market.. money is waiting on the sidelines to come in with elevated risk in both directions." The banks were big market movers with their attractive yields, posting near three per cent gains. ANZ was up 71.5 cents at $29.075 ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... institutional investors. These regulations are focused on reducing the risk of insolvency for insurance companies and restrict banks from making speculative investments that don't benefit their costumers. In its research, Preqin tracked 80 Latin American ...