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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... client adviser at ABN AMRO Morgans, Bill Bishop, said the budget's effect on the market had been minimal. "They leaked it pretty well," Mr Bishop said. "There's a bit of budget blues, but no surprises to shake things up too dramatically. "The market ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... price index futures contract had dropped 30 points to 3895, on a volume of 13,391 contracts. "Late last week, we had a pretty decent run so there was an expectation things would slow down a little bit, and it has," ABN Amro Morgans Brisbane director ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... Both metrics were expected and priced into the previous share price, Mr Foulsham said about Macquarie. "The estimates were pretty broad ranging, so it was quite difficult to predict. The result was toward the bottom end of analysts' expectations, so ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... suffered the net impact of that," CMC Markets analyst David Taylor said. "We've basically got a situation where we had a pretty good run and I think that the market was due for a bit of a correction," Mr Taylor said. "I guess you could say that we are ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... confidence-related. The banks are reflecting the expected profit rises in the US after Goldman (Sachs) came out with a pretty good result," he said. However, improved US bank profits would be based on changes to mark-to-market accounting rules by the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... caught people by surprise," Mr Wright said. "We've certainly drifted lower since it came out. "But the market's priced in a pretty disastrous flow of news, so I think most of it's anticipated. "The consensus seems to be we'll get at least eight per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... "Given the two per cent plus falls over there in the US, close to three per cent, declining only 1.5-1.7 per cent is a pretty workman-like performance, I would think," Mr Heffernan said. Local resources stocks were trading mixed with BHP Billiton down ...

China and India investment themes remain: Actis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... the balance sheets but in emerging markets most the regulatory regimes are very stringent and the credit quality is still pretty good...but I wouldn't say all banks across emerging markets are good." He said the firm is "more cautious" on South East ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... Potter said Australian shares had gained ground by noon, defying a negative lead from US stocks. "Overnight, the leads were pretty much bearish from the US and the UK," Mr Potter said. "It's a little bit surprising that the market is going up at the ...

We are the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... As for their broods, the British lads got toy models of Marine One - the President's helicopter. The Little O's received pretty little dresses from the UK's trendy Top Shop with matching necklaces and a selection of books by British authors. 'What an ...