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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... to a broad stock sell-off on Wall Street on Wednesday that pulled the Dow Jones industrial average down by 130 points. Stocks fell broadly, with energy and materials companies suffering the worst declines. The Dow lost one per cent to close at 12,630.03. ...

Budget 2011: CGT tax to restrict super trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... making any resulting gains and losses subject to capital gains tax. The removal of the exception for super funds trading stocks, primarily shares, units in a trust and land, comes into effect immediately. "One big change highlighted in the federal budget ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Potter said. US shares pushed higher on Tuesday after Microsoft's $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype gave a strong bump to tech stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 75.68 points (0.60 per cent) at 12,760.36 in closing trade. The broader S&P ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... NEW YORK - US shares pushed higher on Tuesday after Microsoft's $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype gave a strong bump to tech stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 75.68 points (0.60 per cent) at 12,760.36 in closing trade. The broader S&P 500 ...

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 ...