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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 83.6 points to 6660.9, and the All Ordinaries gained 85.4 points to 6677.5. NEW YORK - US stocks rose on the back of a strong technology sector, buoyed by strong profit results from Apple and a Chinese distribution deal ...

Tobacco shares up in smoke

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... worth of tobacco shares after an environmental, social and governance (ESG) review of the fund's investments. The tobacco stocks represented only 0.29 per cent of the fund's portfolio, which has more than $13.1 billion in assets. Adrian Orr, chief executive ...

Frontier finds gold in sub-prime muck

... advises on $90 billion of super fund assets, sees the next six to 12 months as a "window of buying opportunity" of quality stocks unfairly tainted by the sub-prime crisis. Speaking as a panelist at today's Fidelity Australian Equities Summit held in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... S&P/ASX200 index fell 129 points or 1.92 per cent to 6577.3 and the All Ordinaries lost 131.2 points to 6592.1. NEW YORK - US stocks rose on Monday, taking back some of Friday's large losses, as a strong first quarter profit and outlook from Apple Inc ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... exactly what is happening... but my gut feel is that we're going to get another night or two of this volatility yet." US stocks tumbled over 2.6 per cent on Friday after the world's biggest construction and mining equipment maker, Caterpillar, slashed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index slipped 61.4 points to 6706.3 and the All Ordinaries fell 57.7 points to 6723.3. NEW YORK - Stocks plunged over 2.6 per cent as construction and mining equipment maker Caterpillar Inc cut forecasts and warned that the US housing ...

Confidence rising in emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... found almost half of the countries, including China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand, chose local stocks as their preferred asset class.

ACT govt funds adopt sustainable investing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... real and lasting change," Stanhope said. Stanhope said the Government acknowledged the approach would expose it to some stocks others might perceive as unethical, but the risk-based approach would provide far more scope to influence how businesses op ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 87.6 points at 6767.7 and the All Ordinaries lifted 84.9 points to 6781. NEW YORK - US stocks were little changed on Thursday as optimism about technology profits helped cancel out worries about how much the credit crunch ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... "Volume for this time of day is probably under average, so a bit of surprise on the upside." A fall in Woodside Petroleum stocks had not impacted heavily, Mr Smith said, while the usual suspects of resource and finance had kept the bourse in positive ...