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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... points higher to 6,071.47. TOKYO - The Nikkei rose 106.38 points to 17,587.59 with stronger commodity prices bolstering some stocks on a day of thin trading. HONG KONG - Stocks were steady with US economic data due out later this week prompting investors ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... looking as bad as once thought," Mrs Macdonald said. "Base metals prices were also strong, filtering through to our resource stocks and there's still this market enthusiasm," she said. Changes to superannuation laws also were keeping the local bourse ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... the July price on COMEX. Base metal prices are the three month PM kerb close on the London Metal Exchange. NEW YORK - US stocks rose on Friday as news of Nasdaq's intention to buy Nordic exchange company OMX and a broker upgrade for Apple boosted investor ...

Small cap oversight costs significant alpha

... the unintended bias arise from fund managers consistently focusing on large cap shares. "There are around 1,500 small cap stocks on their benchmark, the MSCI World Index, and each of those small caps deliver an incremental alpha which they are missing ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... a volume of 6,275 contracts. This follows Thursday's trading during which the three indices lost over one per cent. US stocks fell overnight, as interest-rate concerns spurred investors to lock in profits from the market's recent rally. The US market ...

New boutiques turning to better processes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... managers like Fidelity have 2,000 people there already. Using analysts this way also means they can review a large number of stocks and intervene for more rigorous analysis, which includes meeting with companies, when a range of threshold filters are ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... S&P/ASX200 index dropped 76.0 points to 6279.1 while the all ordinaries index dumped 70.4 points to 6298.6. NEW YORK - US stocks fell overnight, as interest-rate concerns spurred investors to lock in profits from the market's recent rally. News that ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... the July price on COMEX. Base metal prices are the three month PM kerb close on the London Metal Exchange. NEW YORK - US stocks edged lower overnight as a warning about Chinese stocks by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan erased gains fueled ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
... news and speculation drove the Nasdaq to its highest close in more than six years on Tuesday, with casino and technology stocks leading the advance. The Standard & Poor's 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average both slipped, however, as a drop in oil ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... shares are better here from carry over from overnight," he said. Copper futures on the London Metal Exchange gained, as stocks fell to their lowest levels this year, while aluminium, lead, tin and zinc also closed higher, boosting the world's largest ...