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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2004
... buoyed by momentum from the strong reporting season and the decline in the Australian dollar. While in the United States, stocks were mixed on Friday night after a weak US employment report. By 0709 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange today, the March ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
... after Wall St posted modest gains overnight. Yesterday the share market closed virtually flat, with weakness in resource stocks balanced out by stronger sectors of the market such as property trusts, financial services and the healthcare. The benchmark ...

AAG releases annual review of agri stocks

... listed agricultural equities as part of its Agri-Index study. The index measures the performance of listed agricultural stocks against the All Ordinaries, Dow Jones, FTSE and NASDAQ indices. The annual survey of performance shows that the top 10 listed ...

Options strategy beats index funds: study

... produce higher returns than tracking an index with lower long-term risk by selling call options against the underlying stocks they sell, according to a study released last week. The research from the Securities Industry Research Centre of Asia-Pacific ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2004
... on Wall Street last Friday. On Friday, the market closed stronger, pushed along by solid performances from big resources stocks, News Corp and AMP. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was down eight points to 3322 by ...

Market Wrap

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as investors locked in gains from the previous session after disappointing jobless claims data and lackluster earnings news. No. 2 computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. dragged down the Dow Jones industrial average after saying ...

Market Wrap

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, erasing the previous session's losses, as investors anticipated upbeat comments on the economy from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in testimony on Wednesday. The Dow was lifted by manufacturer 3M Co., which raised ...

AMP shares surge on speculation of takeover interest

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2004
Shares in financial services giant AMP Ltd and HHG plc surged this morning as some investors believed the stocks were undervalued and on the back of speculation of more takeover interest in AMP. Both were heavily traded with more than 4.26 million AMP ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2004
... a low of 0.7588. The Australian share market is likely to be weighed down by softer offshore markets overnight. Banking stocks should again be in favour after the Reserve Bank of Australia yesterday decided to leave the official cash rate unchanged at ...

Stocks increasingly popular with Australians: ASX

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2004
More Australians now directly own shares and are more active and committed participants, a survey released today found. The Australian Stock Exchange's (ASX) 2003 Share Ownership Study (SOS) showed 51% of 2,402 adults surveyed own shares - the equivalent ...