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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... 4,528.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index lost 100.2 points, or 2.13 per cent, to 4,609.9 points. NEW YORK - Stocks have closed sharply lower as the nuclear crisis in Japan weighed on global markets. The stock market dropped sharply at the ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... spends - to rebuild infrastructure and increases welfare expenditure - businesses spend - to rebuild factories, refurnish stocks and restart operations - and consumers spend - to rebuild properties and replace what were lost. There'll likely be more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... was down 51.24, or 0.43 per cent, AT 11,993.16. The Nasdaq composite was down 14.64, or 0.54 per cent, at 2,700.97. Two stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume came to 969 million shares. LONDON - European stock markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... week, their largest losses since late May. The market has closed lower in seven out of its past 10 sessions. NEW YORK - US stocks finished a down week with modest gains on Friday as investors gauged the fallout from a massive earthquake that struck off ...

Fund managers to face new norm in liquidity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... identify price improvements and spread savings, are becoming increasingly prominent and allow clients to come in and buy stocks directly rather than going through a sales trader. The ASX suggests that high frequency trading accounts for 4-5 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... seeing some resilience in some parts of the market. "The industrials are actually not faring too badly. "Currently, most stocks are now trading well above their lows for the day after the initial panic-sell, and some value buying has come in." Resources ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... finance of small and medium business. There are no major equities news events scheduled for Friday. On Thursday, Australian stocks closed weaker as falling commodity prices and ongoing turmoil in the Middle East prompted a broad-market decline led by ...

New benchmarks act like analysts

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... provider is found. D'Assier said those ETFs would force fund managers to lift their game. If a value manager who chooses value stocks from an index does not outperform the ETF that scans for the same factor, consumers may abandon the manager. "The customer ...

Fund managers eye 'cheap' Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... and there are great opportunities for a lot of Japanese exporters." Another fund manager agrees that there are some cheap stocks on offer in a wide range of sectors. "In Japan we have focused mainly on domestic plays and it is surprising how well they ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... 4,767.8 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index shed 39.3 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 4,863.2 points. NEW YORK - US stocks were flat on Wednesday following the chop and change of the oil market, as concerns about events in Libya and a lack of ...