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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... leading into the budget this evening," he said. National turnover reached 1.09 billion shares, worth $1.9 billion, with 441 stocks trading up, 457 down and 349 unchanged by 1203 AEST. "The banking sector's turned around after a more positive open... ...

Janus sifts through sectors for EM value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... next 10 years in emerging markets are going to be a lot more boring, frankly. It's going to be a lot more about individual stocks with huge amounts of variants between individual companies," said Chammas. Rather than picking a country and then unearthing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... expected jobs data, released on Friday night local time, had boosted investor sentiment. That was seeing investors buy stocks that had been the subject of heavy selling in recent weeks, she said. "There's been a bit of confidence come back into the resource ...

New index pinpoints volatility, products on way

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... of 12 per cent, with UBS to deliver new structured products based upon it, it said today. Volatility on the S&P/ASX 200 stocks had reached 23 per cent over the past three years, S&P said. The new S&P/ASX 200 Daily Risk Control 12% Index is designed to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... looking for work. The news on job growth helped lift the dollar, nudged up oil prices and reversed a four-day slump for stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 54.57 points, or 0.4 per cent, to close at 12,638.74. The Standard & Poor's 500 index ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Australian shares made up some ground in morning trade but remain lower at noon due to substantial falls in materials stocks due to lower commodity prices. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 7.4 points, or 0.16 per cent, at 4,746.3 ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... dropping that caused commodities sinking. "AAP with BusinessDay" thinks "The biggest fall in commodities in two years saw US stocks tumble overnight..." Apart from this is the month of May, my index finger - not the middle one, that would be rude - is ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... cents, or 0.95 per cent, at $5.24. National turnover at 1220 AEST was 1.39 billion shares worth $2.52 billion, with 547 stocks down, 387 up, and 383 unchanged. Overnight, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 83.93 points, or 0.7 per cent, to close at ...

New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... second-tier emerging markets Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. The CIVETS 60 index comprises of ten stocks from each country. Each company must have a market capitalisation of more than US$500 million to be included. The index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... Serious doubts about the health of the job market and the pace of the US economic recovery put markets on edge on Wednesday. Stocks fell after payroll processor ADP said companies added 179,000 new jobs in April, far fewer than economists had expected. ...