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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... price index futures contract was 27 points lower at 4,638 points, with 11,160 contracts traded. There were around three stocks down for every one that was up in early trade, with resources leading the market lower. Among the large miners, BHP Billiton ...

Former Soros partner targets retail market

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... friend', rotating its asset allocation between high risk asset classes (such as developing market equities and small cap stocks) and low risk asset classes (such as bonds) as global risk appetite emerges and wanes. The portfolio is typically adjusted ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... deal to ease its debt troubles. The successful return of General Motors to the New York stock exchange also boosted US stocks. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.57 per cent, while the S&P 500 index gained 1.54 per cent. Mr Heffernan said ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... they don't know which way to turn at the moment. A lot of big investors are on the sidelines when it comes to individual stocks." However heavyweight materials stocks made gains, with BHP Billiton up 33 cents to $43.80 and Rio Tinto adding 73 cents to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... bank's exposure to poor quality US debt. On Wednesday, some $24.4 billion was wiped off the market value of Australian stocks, after offshore worries pushed the local bourse to its weakest level in four weeks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... price index futures contract was 68 points lower at 4,645 points, with 24,615 contracts traded. Wall Street and European stocks fell sharply overnight on growing unease over Europe's massive sovereign debt and China's efforts to tackle rising inflation. ...

Median Australian shares fund down: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... from other funds due to its diversity with around 70 sotcks in the funds while concentrated strategies are closer to 30 stocks. "The results have come from its limited exposure to the resources sector, but also it's broad exposure to industrial stocks ...

Hunter Hall regains ground

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... outperformance, Jack Lowenstein, Hunter Hall's deputy chief investment officer, talked about some of the "undervalued" stocks they bought in the past 18 months, including stakes in a Japanese karaoke company Daiichikosho, Indian public sector banks and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... Australian credit unions and building societies. On Monday, the Australian share market closed flat as weakness among materials stocks outweighed strength in the industrial and banking sectors. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 4.7 points, or 0.1 ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
"Wall Street drops on China price worries" - afr.com.au. "Wall Street slumps on China concerns" - new.com.au. "Stocks, Commodities Slide on China Concern; Treasuries Tumble" - Bloomberg.com. "US shares drop on China inflation worries" - Reuters via ...