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Midday market wrap: Tower plunges 32.7% after loss warning

Trans-Tasman financial services group Tower plummeted 32.7% during the morning session as anxious investors dumped the stock after the company flagged a likely half-year loss in excess of NZ$180 million ($161 million) when it releases its half-year ...

Morning market wrap: UK, US shares dumped

Shares in the US and in London fell sharply as the rally that had pushed both markets up since March appeared to be over. Losses were particularly heavy on the FTSE-100, as the index plummeted 107.70 points to finish beneath the 4,000-mark. In the US ...

Midday market wrap: AMP weighs down index

The All Ordinaries index was 2.9 points higher at lunchtime, reflecting a strong finish last week in London and New York, although the 40 per cent plummet in the value of AMP shares severely limited any move to the upside. After institutional investors ...

New dwellings financed increase by 0.1% in February: ABS

The number of new dwellings financed in Australia for February 2003 increased by 0.1% to 52,018 as compared to January 2003 according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. There were also 5,202 new dwelling constructions, showing ...

MLC takes full control of Plum Financial Services

MLC is to acquire full ownership of Plum Financial Services for an undisclosed sum and invest $10 million over the next two years, it announced today. The deal will end Vanguard Investments equity holding in Plum, although managing director Jeremy Duffield ...

Qantas shares plummet as Dixon warns investors on profits

Qantas shares plummeted 12.2 per cent in morning trading, falling $0.36 to $2.96 after chief executive Geoff Dixon said it would be unable to meet market profit expectations for the full year. Qantas had earlier cautioned the market of the pressures ...

Property funds performance declines in February: report

Australian property funds suffered a decrease in performance during February, but still managed to outperform a depressed equity market, according to research released today by Rainmaker Information. The Rainmaker Enhanced Composite Property Index fell ...

Midday market wrap: Market static ahead of weekend

The All Ordinaries index was little changed during the morning session with investors unprepared to take any major positions ahead of the weekend. Doubts on the exact progress of the war on Iraq were fuelling the uncertainty. Investors have been faced ...

Morning market wrap: Shares plummet as reality sets in

If news-sensitive markets are currently one barometer of the progress of the war with Iraq, global investors spoke clearly on Monday and the message was one of apprehension. As images of captured Coalition soldiers and reports of staunch Iraqi resistance ...

Investment Analysis: Correlation between Dow Jones, Nasdaq since 9/11

Overnight trading on the Dow Jones and Nasdaq pushed the indices in different directions, with the Dow Jones rising 71.22 points to 8265.45 while the Nasdaq fell 3.47 points to 1397.08. But research conducted by the Financial Standard reveals a very ...