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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." ...

Merger to create $10bn property fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
... according to chief executive officer Andrew Scott. "From a Centro Shopping America fund perspective, the earnings have been pretty flat and therefore there's [sic] low growth opportunities and there are a few challenges in the quality of the portfolio ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2007
... market had reacted to the release of US monthly job figures on Friday night, which were much weaker than expected. "It was pretty much across the board selling," Mr Foulsham said. "Some of the stocks that have been hardest hit are those that have run ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
... was a result of people "sitting on their hands" waiting for more movement overseas. "There's not a lot of activity, it's pretty quiet, the market's down 40 points and people are just biding their time waiting to see what happens on overseas markets more ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... Heffernan said global markets may have turned the corner in relation to the subprime crisis. "I think the momentum for pretty strong, moderate improvement is well entrenched now," he said. "I think that we've got over the nerves of the subprime business. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... significantly stronger, driven by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. "Some of the company reports that have come out recently have been pretty good but I think, for the time being at least, we're going to see a continuation of market volatility," Foulsham said. ...