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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open higher on Thursday after Wall Street ended a three-day losing streak to close moderately higher. Oil and metals rose in overnight trade, too. On the ASX 24 at 0700 AEST, the June share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
The Australian share market opened slightly lower, dragged down by European debt concerns but balanced by a surge in oil and energy stocks. At 1013 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 0.8 points lower at 4,628, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open higher on Tuesday after Wall Street closed flat overnight while European and Asian markets generally were higher. Oil and metals rose. On the ASX 24 at 0717 AEST, the June share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... higher, at $7.83. Mr Russell said barring any sort of major dramas during the afternoon, he expected the local market to trade close to current levels for the rest of the local session. The most traded security by volume was the Telstra, with 30.9 million ...

Judgment Day bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
By the looks of it all, Harold Camping - the real prophet of doom - stood a better chance predicting a stock market crash this week than "Judgement Day" at 6PM (US time) on 21 May 2011. But you would have done well by your investments if you believed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... last year when Greece melted down, sent stocks tumbling across the globe. The Dow fell 130.78 points, or 1.1 per cent, to close at 12,381.26. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 15.9, or 1.2 per cent, to 1,317.37 All but a handful of stocks in the S&P ...

MTAA awards triple equities mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
MTAA Super has restructured its Australian equities portfolio, awarding close to $800 million of new mandates to three separate fund managers. Ankura Capital has secured a $440 million mandate, while Bennelong Funds Management and Colonial First State ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... gained five cents to $7.08. The spot price of gold in Sydney was $US1,495.10 per fine ounce, down 52 cents from Thursday's close of $US1,495.62. Gold miner Newcrest was down 35 cents at $38.42. In the banking sector, ANZ was down 22 cents at $22.76 ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
Surprise, surprise! There were more negative/depressing data releases over the past 24 hours than over the past few "days of fear" combined, yet most equity markets ended on the up and up. No Virginia, I'm not talking about ol' Dominique Strauss-Kahn ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
The Australian market is set for a flat start after the release of weaker economic data in the United States and on weaker commodity prices. On the ASX 24 at 0655 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 11 points lower at 4,749. In economics ...