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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... share market finished modestly higher after Asian markets rallied and weaker than expected local wage data buoyed consumer stocks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 9.8 points higher, by 0.21 per cent, at 4,693.7, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... takeover offer from the bigger peer. National turnover at 1211 AEST was 986.9 million securities worth $1.85 billion, with 447 stocks down, 410 up and 368 unchanged. On Wall Street on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index lost 68.79 points ...

Grant Samuel bags $800 million mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... in the Global Equities Shareholder Yield strategy, $600 million in the Global Choice strategy, which has a maximum of 35 stocks, and $100 million in the Global Small Caps fund. McKinnon said that the Global Equity Shareholder Yield strategy was also ...

New ETFs hit booming market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... Vanguard Australian Shares High Yield fund that follows the benchmark FTSE ASFA Australia High Dividend Yield Index of 63 stocks. It has yearly management costs of 0.25 per cent. It also launched the Vanguard MSCI Australian Small Companies Index, which ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... indices tumbled to an eight-week low. NEW YORK - Technology company troubles and renewed concerns about Europe's debt dragged stocks lower for a second day. The arrest of the head of the International Monetary Fund is expected to make solving the problems ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... more than one per cent lower following a weak result in the US on Friday night and as Westpac shares went ex-dividend. US stocks ended the week mired in red on Friday as investors shrugged off US inflation and consumer confidence reports and weighed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... results. The Institute of Actuaries of Australia holds its Flood Resilience Seminar for 2011 in Sydney. On Friday, Australian stocks closed slightly higher, after spending much of the session lower, but investors remained cautious. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... particularly oil and copper, weighed on the resources sector. In the US overnight, a small recovery took place in defensive stocks such as commodities and consumer staples, amid concerns about high fuel prices eroding consumer spending and cutting into ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
The Australian share market was firmly in the red at noon as resources stocks fell following a drop in commodity prices and a weak lead from Wall Street. At 1202 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 71.2 points, or 1.49 per cent, at 4,709 points ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... write something... anything! But even them fin jornoes do not agree on who did what to Wall Street. Bloomberg thinks "U.S. Stocks Decline as Commodities Tumble Amid Stronger Dollar". For the Australian Financial Review it's, " Oil slides taking A$ and ...