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AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2005
... Warehouse will release first quarter sales while Merrill Lynch hosts an investment managers seminar. NEW YORK - US technology stocks rose for a third day as investors snapped up the shares on hopes of a year-end rally, while a report showing strong wage ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2005
... local market having a strong session yesterday, oil prices rose sharply overnight, suggesting further gains for energy stocks. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was four points firmer at 4525. On the day Burns Philp ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2005
... focus, however Excel Coal, Envestra, Jubilee Mines, Mount Burgess Mining and Tassal all front shareholders. NEW YORK - US stocks rose to one-month highs as investors snapped up depressed technology shares in anticipation of a year-end rally, while Time ...

Platypus enters the long-short pond

... The Platypus Australian Long/Short Fund has start-out capital of $33 million of institutional money to trade Australian stocks and will be run by what CEO, Derek Sicklen, says is a "very quant-heavy and experienced team." Sicklen adds that the fund will ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2005
... 0930 AEDT this morning while the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases September building approvals data. NEW YORK - US stocks fell as a disappointing earnings forecast from computer maker Dell after yesterday's close routed technology shares and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2005
... rates to remain on hold at 5.50 per cent when it makes the announcement to the market at 0930 AEDT tomorrow. NEW YORK - US stocks rose as a string of takeover announcements worth more than $US15 billion and a decline in oil prices boosted investors' ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2005
... experimental inflation gauge while the Reserve Bank of Australia releases September financial aggregates data. NEW YORK - US stocks rallied, with the Dow average making its biggest one-day point rise since April, as a government report showed third-quarter ...

Market wrap

... NZSX-50 gross index eased 7.35 points to 3286.96, while the NZSX-All capital fell 3.52 points to 1004.51. NEW YORK - US stocks fell sharply in a third straight day of declines after a bigger-than-expected drop in US durable goods orders and news that ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2005
... BHP Billiton is expected to release its Q1 production report and Austar is expected to release Q3 earnings. NEW YORK - US stocks fell as the benchmark bond yield hit the highest level in seven months on reignited concerns about inflation and interest ...

More women bring home the bacon: NAB

... NAB's executive general manager of business and private banking. Frazis added that their female clients prefer well-known stocks and companies that have solid reputation and returns. "They do not try to capitalise on short-term swings in the economy ...