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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... January. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases retail trade trends and building approvals data for December. In equities, Australand Property Group Ltd releases annual results, and retailer David Jones Ltd releases second quarter sales figures. ...

More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... industry briefing held this morning. Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney, Craig James, chief equities economist at Commonwealth Securities, said that he predicts the index to dive another 13 per cent to hit 3,000 this ...

ETCs open on ASX

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... platinum, palladium, silver and gold. According to ETF Securities, some precious metals exhibit a low correlation to equities, tend to provide a hedge against inflation and are negatively correlated to the US dollar. For example, gold, in Australian ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... January effect postulates that the US stock market's performance for the entire month of January predicts the direction of equities for the remaining 11 months of the year. Studies proved that this has been accurate 75 per cent of the time. January ended ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market is expected to open lower, after the falls in US equities, before attention turns to the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision. At 0720 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was 64 ...

Solaris gets "highly recommended" rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... company was only launched in January 2008. However the team has a long history of successfully managing an Australian equities portfolio applying the same investment process," the report said. Solaris has nine investment personnel, including five equity ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
Bad bank sparks optimism in US equities. Last night's decision by the US Federal Reserve's Federal Open Markets Committee to leave interest rates unchanged at virtually zero was a no-brainer. How can it do otherwise when the deepening financial and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... Exchange, the March share price index contract was 61 points higher at 3,390 on a on a volume of 11,172 contracts. Macquarie Equities associate director Lucinda Chan said declines in the US dollar had boosted the price of metals, including gold, helping ...

Oil up, equities down: Feng Shui Index

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
Global equity markets will remain volatile, the cost of oil will rise and US President Barack Obama's popularity will wane are just a few predictions from this year's CLSA Feng Shui Index. Asian investment and brokerage group CLSA's Feng Shui Index ...

BGI wins $2bn French mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
Barclays Global Investors has won a $2 billion mandate European equities mandate with French national pension reserve fund, FRR. FRR, which has $65 billion in assets under management, launched a tender in three slots April last year with the aim of ...