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Future Fund defends tax havens

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon's Management Committee. Rush said the largest of these was Honeywell, an American conglomerate with a significant Aerospace & Defense arm. If the Greens' Bill is successful the future fund has warned that it will have ...

Avenue joins Lonsdale

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
Adviser group Avenue Capital Management will join IOOF's Lonsdale Financial group, cementing the conglomerate's place well inside the industry's top 10. The agreement to join Lonsdale adds 30 adviser to their stable, bringing their combined numbers ...

BT Ethical divests last News Corp share

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, BT Ethical has confirmed it has sold the final tranche of its shares in the media conglomerate, which remains mired in charges of phone hacking. "I can confirm that we have now sold the last tranche so we have no more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... canceled. Assets that tend to hold their value in a weak economy, like US government debt and gold, rose. Manufacturing conglomerate 3M cut its 2011 earnings forecast, and US Steel warned that demand for its products could slow. Netflix Inc plunged 35 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... huge California pension funds say they will vote against the re-election of Rupert Murdoch to the board of his media conglomerate News Corporation this week. NewsCorp shares were 21 cents, or 1.25 per cent, lower, at $16.55. Telstra shares were more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... manufacturing added to concerns about the weakness of the world's largest economy. Shares of Caterpillar, the industrial conglomerate widely seen as an economic bellwether, gained 2.0 per cent for the day, while pharmaceuticals giant Merck was down 2.2 ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... Consolidated Edison (ED), consumer staples companies Procter & Gamble (PG) and General Electric (GE), and pharmaceutical conglomerate Pfizer (PFE). Outperformance by stocks that operate low-risk, low-growth businesses indicates defensiveness by investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... automaker, posted its highest first-quarter profit in 13 years: $US2.55 billion ($A2.39 billion). Shares in manufacturing conglomerate 3M rose 1.9 per cent to $95.94 after posting record sales in the first quarter, with strong growth in Asia despite ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... gained 2.3 per cent at $107.81. Among stocks in focus, United Technologies rose 4.3 per cent to $85.90. The industrial conglomerate beat earnings estimates and raised its forecast for the rest of the year. AT&T was up 0.8 per cent at $26.74. The National ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... in the June 2011 quarter, after the company shipped a record 1.39 million tonnes in the March quarter. Diversified conglomerate Wesfarmers strengthened nine cents to $32.54 after it said second quarter prices for its metallurgical coal from the Curragh ...