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Wall Street beauties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... Louis, which reported 'softened' economic conditions." Last month only nine of the 12 regions reported "modest" improvement. Pretty. US retail sales rose by 1.6 per cent in March -- better than market expectations for a 1.2 per cent rise -- and 7.6 per ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... 9,582 contracts. "There's not been huge movement anywhere in particular, but the energy sector and the miners are doing pretty well," CommSec market analyst Steve Daghlian said. "For the week, the market has gained about one per cent." In the energy ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... non-farm payrolls report coming in well... short of expectations. Had the Street been opened for business on Good Friday, I'm pretty sure that the knee-jerk reaction would be to sell share holdings. But the long weekend break gave investors, speculators ...

Perennial gains intl insto mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... picking strategy and is targeting Asian and European property securities instead of US stocks. "The US is probably is looking pretty well valued to overvalued and we see more opportunities in Asia," he said. "The Chinese government is attempting to curb ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... Michael Heffernan said. "The resources are the ones that are down a bit more than others, which is to be expected from the pretty soft commodities prices that we saw on Friday," he said. "It was not much of a lead from the US, so it's not surprising ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... Private Wealth investment adviser, John Milroy, said volumes were slow and there had been some profit-taking. "Banks are pretty mixed and resource stocks are weaker on the back of some of the overnight metals moves as well," Mr Milroy said. Australia's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... continues to be range-bound between 4,500 points and 4,800 points, he said. The market had given no response to the RBA's "pretty standard" statement justifying its 25 basis point interest rate rise at its meeting on March 2, he added. "We're seeing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... little bit of improvement across the materials sector, which is the best performing area," Mr Chatterton said. "It's a pretty mixed day." BHP Billiton was higher amid expectations of a substantial rise in iron ore prices this year, he said. Its shares ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... diversified mining companies were the best performers during the morning. "Base metals on the London Metals Exchange had a pretty strong night last night and they were also the leading sector in the US," Mr Potter said. "That's probably why we have seen ...

MSCI buys RiskMetrics

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... products will be complementary to the Barra approach and the governance business would continue to operate as usual, it's pretty mature," he said. The Australian Council for Super Investors (ACSI) recently commissioned RiskMetrics to provide research ...