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Social media ETF proves possibilities are endless

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
The launch of a new ETF which exposes investors to the companies most talked about on social media proves index investing is limited only by product providers' imagination. The new product, launched on the NYSE by Toronto-based alternative fund manager ...

Blue Sky scratches head lice from portfolio

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Blue Sky Venture Capital has exited a head lice treatment company after it entered into a $278 million commercial agreement with Indian-based Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. Blue Sky invested in Hatchtech in 2013 as part of a $12 million syndicate of Australian ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street following a mixed batch of earnings reports and another big decline by technology giant Apple. At 0815 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures contract was down ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... Nasdaq is up 15.8% and the Russell 2000 11.2% higher if we go back a bit further to the day when Yellen yelled that smaller biotech and social media stocks valuation were "stretched." And "compared to returns on safe assets like bonds"? The yield on ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... he added. Large tech stocks to gain included Apple (+0.5 per cent), Amazon (+2.7 per cent) and Google (+1.4 per cent). Biotech stocks, such as Celgene (+4.2 per cent) and Biogen (+2.7 per cent), were also strong. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... respectively, while offshore driller Transocean lost 2.0 per cent. Pharmaceuticals were also weak. Merck lost 1.8 per cent, while biotech companies Amgen and Biogen both fell 1.2 per cent. In the tech sector, Intel lost 1.7 per cent and Apple and Cisco ...

RBA minutes lift stock market

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... following the sudden departure of Ian Smith. Prima BioMed surged 1.2 cents, or 54.55 per cent, to 3.4 cents after the biotech announced strong results for its ovarian cancer treatment.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
The Australian stock market looks set to open higher, following strong gains on Wall Street. At 0653 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 39 points at 5,726. The S&P 500 in the US rose to a fresh record close, led by strong ...

Tech stock tech stock (tick tock tick tock)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... NEW YORK - US stocks have fallen sharply, with the Nasdaq suffering the deepest declines on worries that technology and biotech equities have become overvalued. The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index, which stood above 5,000 on Monday, plummeted 118.21 ...