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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... 42 cents, or 2.12 per cent, at $19.38, National Australia Bank was down $34 cents, or 1.49 per cent, to $22.46. Resource stocks, too, opened in negative territory. BHP Billiton was down $1.04, or 2.71 per cent, at $37.36, while Rio Tinto lost $2.22 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... Representatives that calls for raising the US debt limit by $US1 trillion ($A925 billion). In local trade, materials and resource stocks led the market down, with BHP Billiton falling 44 cents to $43.08, and Rio Tinto down 39 cents at $82.60. Banks and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... US stocks fell on a White House threat to veto legislation that would avert a US debt default. But Australian resource stocks may gain after the price of metals and oil rose. At 0826 AEST on the ASX 24 on Wednesday, the June share price index futures ...

Continuum sees value as active managers scrape past benchmark

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... itself in altering between styles and sectors," said McElwee. In Q1 of 2010/11 they were adding value by picking up resource stocks, in Q2 they sold down some of those in favour of industrials benefiting from the mining boom, before turning their attention ...

China-Gillard tug o' war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... alongside China's purchasing managers index. They are positively correlated. This was on display only last week when resource stocks fell following reports that China's PMI declined in June to just above the expansion/contraction line. But as long as ...

Former UBS star team launches flagship Bennelong Avoca fund

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... commodity prices at stretched levels and not sustainable in the long term," he said. "We are quite underweight resource stocks at the moment as we're sure that when commodity prices normalise and fall that share prices will follow." "We're underweight ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... forces driving the major sectors in opposite directions. "Just on the open, we've seen a little bit of buying in resource stocks on the back of the uplift in commodities overnight," he said. Market heavyweight BHP Billiton rose 20 cents, or 0.46 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... after a strong debut by Swiss commodities giant Glencore. Dealers said Glencore's float boosted confidence in resource stocks after a sharp sector correction earlier this month on fears a slower growth outlook meant their sustained gains were overdone. ...

Avoca patient on industrials evolution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... that many Australian industrial sectors have experienced PE de-rating over the last decade. In contrast small resource stocks have soared in price and carry a heightened risk given typical short mine lives and high production costs. The managers said ...

Perpetual to debut global resources

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... to come. This will provide companies and investors with higher returns in the future from investing in quality resource stocks," said Bruce.