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Absolute differences among hedge funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... of hedge funds, which invest in a wide range of sub-funds; and long-short funds, which are equity funds that short-sell stocks. He said hedge funds that invested in structured credit portfolios, along the lines of the Basis Yield Fund, were extremely ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 55.1 points to 6384.2, while the All Ordinaries gained 51.8 points to 6419. US stocks rose overnight driving the Dow to its first close over the 14,000 mark, after forecast-topping results from the technology ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... release quarterly production reports. The Australian share market closed lower yesterday, dragged back by the big miners and stocks affected by the high value of the Australian dollar. At the close, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 52.5 points ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
At 1216 AEST, local energy stocks were mixed with Woodside Petroleum dropping $1.04 to $45.50, while Santos gained 15 cents to $14.15 and Oil Search rose two cents to $4.18. Santos announced today it would build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility ...

Market gains velocity

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
... increasing steadily along with liquidity. JP Morgan analyst, Berowne Hlavaty explains that scaling the daily value of all stocks traded by the market cap at the end of each trading day creates a neat measure of liquidity that is comparable over time ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
... and the Nasdaq rose to a six-and-a-half-year high on a cascade of stronger-than-expected earnings. But weakness in energy stocks and lingering worries about the subprime mortgage market held back the advance of the broader S&P 500, which closed virtually ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
The Australian share market had retreated slightly at noon, despite some buoyancy among the banks, as gold and energy stocks went backwards. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index down 9.4 points to 6371.4, while the All Ordinaries lost points ...

Not drowning just waving

... Some recent confessions have been profit warnings loosely disguised as 'earnings updates' and in such a case the offending stocks are usually treated with contempt by the rest of the market. In a recent report, JPMorgan takes a peep "under the reporting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... mortgage market may spread. But optimism about earnings by multinational companies pushed the Dow to nearly 14,000. Energy stocks fell, led by ConocoPhillips, because of concern about dwindling profit margins for gasoline. In addition, natural gas prices ...

Good times keep rolling for ASX funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... performers in the league table employed concentrated strategies. The SGH20 fund managed by SG Hiscock, which holds only 20 stocks and has a growth bias, achieved a 47.15 percent return. "Lazard's Select Australian Equity fund, which adopts a value-style ...