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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... Mr Buckley told AAP. "We've still got a long, rough patch to go. "Across the board, you can see it's only the defensive stocks that have been doing well, that is, the ones that missed out on the rally of the past few weeks are now starting to perform." ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... risen 800 points in eight weeks. I think a bit of profit-taking is a good thing." Mr Bishop was surprised that engineering stocks had not risen with the news of more government infrastructure spending. Australia's biggest bank, Westpac, was 14 cents ...

TAAM strategy scores mandate boost

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... fund doubled their weighting to the sector, and backed TAAM's bottom up strategy with a focus on liquid mid to large cap stocks by increasing their existing mandate with the fund manager. Another mandate from an Australian insto client also received ...

Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
From high-speed railway to high-tech alarms, fund manager K2 Asset Management banks on stocks that will flourish in the face of a global recession. Nick Griffin, the group's head of international strategy, said that investors should tap into mega-trends ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... 0.4 per cent, lower at 3926, while the broader All Ordinaries lost 9.1 points, or 0.23 per cent, to 3910.5. NEW YORK - US stocks tumbled Monday as investors locked in gains from a hefty multiweek rally and braced for new economic data. The Dow Jones ...

Avoiding the black swan

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... Enhanced Investment Technologies, said investors should in fact look at portfolios that have a wider and broader range of stocks. This was how 12 of the 14 portfolio strategies ran by the group managed to outperform their benchmarks last year - by investing ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... per cent, to finish at 3,312.59. TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average rose 0.5 per cent to a six-month closing high, as bank stocks such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group surged after stress tests eased uncertainty over the health of US lenders. The benchmark ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... Wall Street and lower commodities prices overnight, but some buoyancy was provided by banks, miners and consumer staples stocks. At 1201 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 24.1 points, or 0.61 per cent, at 3,914.6, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Cameron Stockbrokers fine-tunes team

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... affiliations and links to provide a complete service to our clients. "We are looking for experienced people with picking stocks and managing clients' portfolios," he said.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... lender Elders Rural Bank (ERB) for about $33.9 million, lifting its interest to 60 per cent. On Wall Street overnight, stocks were boosted by a better-than-expected survey on US private-sector job losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 101.63 ...