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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. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... Bond prices rose slightly. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note dipped to 3.26 from 3.28 per cent from late Monday. Two stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Consolidated volume came to 4.5 billion shares. LONDON - Europe's ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... of 79 basis points per annum and a minimum investment size of $1000, will be passively managed and will track selected stocks from countries covered within the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. In a move designed to set it apart from simple index-tracking ...

Intersuisse adds senior roles to institutional desk

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... into one of the associate director roles after four years as an equities dealer where he specialised in small and mid cap stocks. Prior to that, Cleland was with Patersons Securities. Colin Eichenberger has accepted the other associate director role ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... does not expect market conditions to improve enough to recover the decline before the end of the financial year. "Media stocks, newspaper stocks and magazine stocks are all under pressure at the moment," Ms Chan said. However, among the retailers, outdoor ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... 4,108.77 points while in Frankfurt the main DAX index gained 0.18 percent to 7,527.64 points. Elsewhere in Europe, Swiss stocks rose 0.08 percent, Amsterdam climbed 0.45 percent and Lisbon rose 0.48 percent. Madrid was off 0.02 percent and Milan dipped ...

Government applauds ASIC trading rules

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... it or face a $100,000 fine. Chi-X is already live in 15 European markets with over 27 per cent market share in FTSE 100 stocks with investors saving more than a,-40 million in price improvements in Q1 2010 thanks to tighter spreads and lower implicit ...