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ASX report finds property performs better than shares

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2004
For the first time The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) annual report on investment returns over a 10-year period has shown investors would have been better off investing in property than shares. The report commissioned by the ASX found after-tax returns ...

Experts predict 20% returns from ASX over coming year

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2004
Experts predict the Australian stock market's ASX 200 index to return 20% over the coming year, according to Commonwealth Securities. Consensus forecasts, calculated after the March reporting season, found a selection of market experts think the ASX200 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2004
The Australian market is expected to struggle for direction after United States and United Kingdom markets enjoyed a long weekend. Yesterday, the all ordinaries ended 9.8 points higher at 3460.2, while the S&P/ASX 200 was up 9.7 points to 3456.9. By ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2004
The Australian sharemarket should struggle to make gains after falls in the blue chip stocks on Wall Street on Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average and the broader S&P 500 Index both lost ground in light trading. A report showed US consumers slowed ...

Market wrap

US equity markets were mixed overnight, offering little direction for the local sharemarket on Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average closed marginally weaker, down 7.73 points to 10,109.89 while the more broadly-based S&P-500 and the technology ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2004
The Australian share market is likely to track sideways after a lacklustre session on Wall St overnight, but stronger commodities prices could drive resources stocks higher. In New York, key indices ticked in both directions. The broad Standard & Poor's ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2004
The Australian share market should get a boost from Wall St and open higher, continuing a winning streak that ran through most of last week. Higher base metals and precious metals prices at the weekend should also propel resource stocks, which ended ...

Equity, bond and commodities all down in April: Mercer

Most equity, bond and commodity markets fell in April, the latest Mercer Sector Survey has revealed. Mercer attributed the general fall to signs of potential future rate hikes in the US, continued instability in the Middle East and the Chinese government ...

AAP Market Wrap

The Australian sharemarket fell at the open today, with a weak banking sector dragging the bourse down as a strong News Corp provided some support. At 1018 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was 3.5 points lower at 3367.3 while the all ordinaries ...

WRAP: Overnight debt and forex

The US Treasury market ended mixed [overnight], after a major rout on Friday prompted by unexpectedly strong April employment data. The short end of the yield curve clawed back only a small part of the 0.25% rises in yield on Friday, but the long end ...