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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... sold off in every sector, giving up gains yesterday as investors took profits, bringing the recent rally to an end. "Financials are heavily in the red, with Macquarie Group down 5.14 per cent to $33.20 (at 1208 AEDT)," Ms Simpson said. "Energy stocks ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... was 43 points lower at 3,748 on a volume of 16,561 contracts. Intersuisse director of equities, Andrew Sekely, said financials were leading the way down. "With the miners up, obviously something had to be down and there you are seeing a direct response ...

Conviction where it counts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... Australia. But to stay ahead of the benchmark for the year, Marcal and his team had to make big calls: cutting their financials exposure to zero, shorting a range of world indices and screening the entire portfolio for companies that relied heavily on ...

AMP taps Maple-Brown Abbott for Asian eq expert

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... portfolio manager, Asian Equities. Prior to joining AMP, Reoch was at Maple-Brown Abbott where he was the Asian Regional Financials analyst, making stock calls on financial companies in the Asia region. He was previously the head of the Australian banks ...

Fund trades under super watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... highlight whether all fund managers made the same decision during a trading day. That is, if all of them bought more financials or sold out of consumer stocks. Field said this then alerts the super fund to their "concentration risk", where they are now ...

Fidelity gears for reflation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... markets. 'I continued to move money away from industrials (including resources), covering an underweight in global financials held since April 2007, increasing my overweight in healthcare and moving slightly overweight the global consumer sector." He ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... damage is broad-based... across all of the major sectors with the majority of the selling pressure coming out of the financials and also out of the materials sector." At 1203 AEDT, National Australia Bank had fallen $1.75, or 7.37 per cent, to $21.98 ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... have seen the market actually bounce back a little bit in mid-morning trade, following Bush's address. "Some of the financials were quite heavily sold off in the morning and a lot of them have bounced back into positive territory. "On the negative side ...

Managers hit back on shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... 24.7 per cent, principally made up of growth-sensitive stocks and indices. Of the total shorts, 7 per cent are in US financials and US real estate exchange traded funds. "Two of these positions are on the restricted list until 2nd October and account ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... Futures Exchange's December Share Price Index (SPI) contract was off 52 points to 4,979, on volume of 19,405 contracts. Financials were hit yet again, but it was the Australian real estate investment trust (A-REIT) and healthcare sectors which were the ...