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Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Markets Index. But not India. Its stock market has outperformed since the first of the major central banks' QE announcement - big time. The Sensex 30 index is up a full 9% to date. This is despite the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) recent downgrade of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... 3.35 points, to 1,992.68. Shanghai was closed for a week-long public holiday. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares fell, paced by big movers Fletcher Building, Vector, Telecom and Ryman Healthcare. Fisher and Paykel Appliances rose after its independent directors ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
Australian stocks have opened firmer, with the financial sector leading the broader market higher. At 1032 AEST on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 7.3 points, or 0.16 per cent, at 4,445.9 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Australia can't afford complacency: Murray

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... slowdown in Chinese growth that is creating uncertainty in key sectors of the economy. While there are no immediate signs of a big downturn in the economy, concerns on China are serious and monetary policy adjustment, usually accompanied by an exchange ...

Data deluge delivers no clearer visibility

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
'Twas raining data updates over the past 24 hours. Eco stats and surveys flooded cyberspace unrelentingly, one after the other, and yet near-term visibility remains almost... invisible. Take your pick Virginia. There are numbers to back up the "we're ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... open, with Brambles the best-performing stock on the index having risen 1.14 per cent, or eight cents, to $7.08. The four big retail banks, who were yet to announce their response to the RBA move, were all higher. ANZ was up 16 cents at $25.15, CBA had ...

Super funds line up for Sevior

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
Veteran stock picker John Sevior's new fund is being reviewed by CBUS Super for an Australian Equities mandate. CBUS - which had an Australian equities mandate with Sevior's former employer Perpetual at the time of his departures - said that it is doing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... how Spain, Europe's fourth biggest economy, would affect the health of the euro zone. "In the past it wouldn't have had a big impact at all," he said. Resources stocks, which are often tied to concerns about global growth, were slightly weaker, with ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Ole, ole, ole! Spain's request for bailout is in the mail. This is the message that prompted a turnaround in equity markets in America and Europe overnight following the Spanish government's announcement of its 2013 budget that aims to cut the deficit ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
The Australian market is set to open slightly higher after world markets reacted positively to the release of Spain's 2013 budget supporting its austerity measures. At 0813 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up two ...