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New horizon for MLC debt strategy

Fund manager MLC aims to protect its conservative investors against the risks of rising bond yields with the introduction of a tailored diversified bond strategy. The new strategy involves tailoring the average maturity and duration profiles of the ...

Merrill Lynch survey reveals upbeat global sentiment on equities

Buoyed by global reflation, world equity markets will be higher in 12 months time, a new survey of fund managers has revealed. The monthly global survey, conducted by Merrill Lynch revealed that managers were overweight equities, underweight bonds and ...

Afternoon market wrap: Shares, dollar end higher

The Australian share market made it into positive territory just before the close of trading today, despite being weighed down by the banking sector for most of the session. Gains by market heavyweight News Corp and resource stocks managed to reverse ...

Midday Market Wrap: Dollar weaker, but responding to low unemployment rate

The Australian dollar was weaker at noon but had jumped higher on news that Australia's unemployment rate had plunged to a near 14-year low of 5.6 per cent in October. At 1200 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7094/99 compared with yesterday's ...

Shares expected to post solid returns in the coming year: Oliver

Shares are expected to post solid returns over the next six to 12 months on the back of low interest rates and a positive outlook for the economy (which should boost profits). In his review of financial markets for September, Dr Shane Oliver, chief ...

Low rainfall sparks hopes of high insurance earnings

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
Relatively low levels of rain in recent months have sparked hopes of three of Australia's top insurers producing even better than expected earnings in the coming year. Analysts at UBS have upgraded their earnings estimates for Promina Group Ltd, Insurance ...

Midday Market Wrap: Bond market stronger after yesterday's sell off

The Australian bond market opened slightly stronger today, halting yesterday's sharp sell off. At 0900 AEST the yield on the Commonwealth Government May 2013 bond was at 5.545 per cent from 5.570 at yesterday's close. The yield on the November 2006 ...

Investors happy to "Buy the dips": FSIU survey

Australian investment professionals remain undaunted by the fall in equity markets during September, if anything becoming slightly more optimistic on the prospects for both the Australian and international markets in the next 12 months, according to ...

Morning market wrap: US stocks continue to slide

US stocks fell Friday to the lowest levels in over a month, as investors began to focus on the upcoming third quarter profit reporting season. The absence of a recovery in employment growth and eroding consumer sentiment have left investors worried ...

Morning market wrap: US bonds stronger on weak employment data

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2003
US bond yields fell sharply Friday, following news non-farm payrolls tumbled 93,000 in August and compared with consensus forecasts of a small rise. The decline in July was also revised down to 49,000, although the unemployment rate was unchanged at ...