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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... general meeting in Melbourne. On Thursday, the Australian share market closed stronger with buyers snapping up materials stocks after an early dip on worse than expected unemployment data. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 28.8 points, or 0.61 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
The Australian share market was higher in early afternoon trading because of stronger demad for energy and resources stocks after positive data from offshore overnight. At 1214 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 25.4 points, or 0.54 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... holding annual general meetings. On Wednesday, the Australian share market closed weaker after banking, mining and energy stocks all lost support. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 40.9 points, or 0.86 per cent, at 4,699.8 points, while the broader ...

Slim pickings in intl equities: van Eyk

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... team at IFP, formerly a Morgan Stanley team, was rated highly as they are a small four-person team that invest in quality stocks, possess a keen focus on valuation and react well to the market, to "capture the upside of the market". According to Bigg ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... Australian share market closed weaker as the sale of a major stake in oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum helped drag stocks lower. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 37.7 points, or 0.79 per cent, at 4,740.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Better boring than bubble

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... there's been a lot of interest further out in the risk spectrum than we're really prepared to go into," he said. "There are stocks that are far more conceptual in nature... some are bubble-type stocks," he said, referring to some companies capitalised ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... December share price index futures contract was down 37 points at 4,769, with 18,695 contracts traded. For around every three stocks falling in the S&P/ASX50, there was one decline. RBS Morgans director of equities Bill Chatterton said the sale of Shell's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... Friday, the Australian share market climbed over one per cent to a fresh six-month high as investors snapped up resources stocks amid higher metals prices and a greater appetite for riskier assets. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 55.3 points, or ...

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... deliver higher returns," said Alok Kumar, Cesarano scholar and professor of finance. "This drove them to hold more domestic stocks and take more risks. Ultimately, their portfolios performed about 2.7 percent better than those of investors preferring ...

ETFs distort stock fundamentals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... they said in their recent white paper titled Hedge Funds Struggle with the New Market Order. Hennessee said low quality stocks are consistently outperforming the high quality ones, turning conventional ideas about how to pick investment stocks on their ...