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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... cents or 2.19 per cent to $5.14. Shares in Amcor Ltd surged 20 cents or 2.98 per cent to $6.92 after the packager posted half year profit up 138 per cent to $226.1 million. One of media operator Kerry Stokes's media interests, West Australian Newspapers ...

Challenger boutiques and annuities enjoy strong half year

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Challenger has upgraded its growth targets for its funds management and life sales business after posting record returns this morning. In the group's half yearly 2011 results, Challenger's total assets under management rose 8 per cent to $25.8 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... including Sky TV and Abano Healthcare. Sky TV shares gained 17c to 558, after the company reported a 19 per cent rise in half year net profit to $NZ60.3 million ($A45.43 million), as revenue rose eight per cent from a year earlier to $NZ398 million ($A299.87 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
... Consolidated Media Holdings rose seven cents, or 2.4 per cent, to $2.99 after posting an 87 per cent fall in reported half year net profit. The highest traded stock by volume by 1227 AEDT was Cluff Resources, with 132 million shares changing hands for ...

Snowball expands 'segmented advice'

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
Snowball Group marks 2011 as another year of providing more services in the area of 'segmented advice' after posting a healthy increase in its half-year profits. Tony McDonald, managing director of Snowball, said the group is performing well as it prepares ...

DKN preps for growth despite profit fall

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
DKN Financial Group presses on with its expansion strategy despite a fall in its profits in the half year, according to results released this morning. DKN recorded an increase in funds under administration, up 6.5 per cent to $7.9 billion since June ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... week. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket closed on a quiet note despite Fletcher Building reporting promising half year results. Shares in New Zealand's biggest construction company fell 4c in early trading, after reporting an eight per cent rise ...

Grass greener for local bourse without SGX

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... operations in Australia should have already been considered as a must in the first place. The ASX is due to announce its half year results tomorrow.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... Markets market strategist Ric Spooner said BHP Billiton shares had been lifted by an announcement this week of an expected half year net profit of about $11 billion. "The thing which is particularly galvanising interest in BHP is an expectation they ...

Bendigo wealth mgmt posts $23m profit

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... Adelaide's wealth management division accounted for 14 per cent of the bank's total profit after tax of $173.9 million in the half year to December, according to results released this morning. During the half year, the group's wealth arm contributed ...