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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... commodities were a bit negative, but not that bad. There's a bit of to-ing and fro-ing there," Mr Heffernan said. "BHP will be a pretty upbeat annual general meeting today. They'll keep their powder dry on the Rio Tinto takeover," he predicted. "But ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... of buying back today (but) I haven't seen too much behind that. "The main point to make here is that conditions remain pretty thin." Mr Morriss said the Australian dollar remained at risk from further stock market weakness and he expected the currency ...

The unpopular outperformer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... available to wholesale investors with a minimum initial investment amount of $100,000, uptake has been slow. "It's been pretty good but we have been surprised, it's just three years old and it's consistently been in the top quartile but to date it hasn't ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... of a stalling economy would be the only thing prompting another cut. However, the downward US housing spiral is getting pretty spectacular, with absolute house prices, the countrywide average, falling for the first time since the great depression of ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... yesterday, was performing strongly on the back of easing concerns for the US economy. "We're seeing the energy sector put in a pretty strong fightback: it was down almost 1.5 per cent but is back to being flat, driven by Woodside, and was probably just ...

Equities without borders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... traditional country barriers for exchanges [and] the competition for capital is truly becoming global. For us, that's a pretty obvious precursor to say 'Well, if that's how exchanges are thinking and that's how companies are thinking, why are we all ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... strong trading on Wall Street had helped the bourse, although weak base metal prices had made an impact. "It's looking pretty strong, it's up about three quarters of a per cent or a bit more... It was pretty well sold off yesterday, so a bit of a bounce ...

Principal goes beyond property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... both retail and institutional investors, said Francois. "It has a ten-year track record and top quartile [performance] pretty much all the way through, so what we're looking to do is replicate that into an Australian fund," he said. He said while he ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
... which eased concerns over a global credit crunch arising from problems in the US sub-prime mortgage market. "The market is pretty confident that Bernanke (US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke) will be pretty aggressive in trying to prop up the market," ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... letter day today. I can't really see a spot of green," Heffernan said. "We are down 1.3 per cent (at 1145 AEST), which is a pretty sizeable fall, with the banks taking the major brunt of that, with the four biggest losers out of the top 20 being banks." ...