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Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... ExxonMobil fell by 1.2 per cent and 1.3 per cent respectively, while offshore driller Transocean lost 2.0 per cent. Pharmaceuticals were also weak. Merck lost 1.8 per cent, while biotech companies Amgen and Biogen both fell 1.2 per cent. In the tech ...

Henderson launches dividend-seeker fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... large technology companies based in the United States, such as Cisco. About 15% of the portfolio is allocated in pharmaceuticals, with a focus on "new treatments that could be revolutionary, such as DNA sequencing," Crooke explained, and added that European ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... issues its quarterly bulletin. In equities news, Myer, Metcash and OrotonGroup issue half year results while Sigma Pharmaceuticals is due to post full year results. And, Medibank Private chief executive George Savvides addresses a CEDA lunch in Melbourne. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
... Capital's senior client adviser Michael Heffernan. "That's obviously going to set the tone of the overall market." Pharmaceuticals giant CSL and finance group Suncorp both wound back their full year guidance on Wednesday after softer than expected first ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... $9.545, but Harvey Norman was two cents higher at $3.74. Another company to release financial results was Sigma Pharmaceuticals, which achieved a 38 per cent rise in half year profit. But its shares were 2.5 cents weaker at 80.5 cents.

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... more "paid clicks". Drug maker AbbVie sealed a tax-cutting $US54 billion takeover deal with Dublin-based Shire Pharmaceuticals as it plans to switch its tax base to Britain to avoid higher US taxes. AbbVie rose 2.6 per cent. In local economic news on ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... straight day. But the tech-rich Nasdaq fell 5.33 points, or 0.13 per cent, to 4,242.62. Stocks rose after Valeant Pharmaceuticals raised its bid for Botox-maker Allergan for the second time this week. Valeant rose 1.5, while Allergan jumped 5.7 per cent. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... chairman to take up his new role at News Corporation and 21st Century Fox, were down 0.25 cents at 26.25 cents. Pharmaceuticals wholesaler Sigma Pharmaceuticals' shares were up 3.5 cents at 66.5 cents after posting a net profit of $53.5 million for the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... was down 26 points at 5,344. Locally, no major economic news is expected on Thursday. In equities news, Sigma Pharmaceuticals is expected to post full year results while Washington H Soul Pattinson and Brickworks are slated to release first half results. ...

SMSFs still under-invested in global shares

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... world class companies in sectors that are under-represented on the Australian share market, such as technology, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, consumer brands, aerospace and luxury goods," he continued. "Many of those companies are wired to the ...