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Fund returns positive in August; Mercer

... monthly survey conducted by Mercer, company earnings are up approximately 29% on the same period last year while the materials sector provided the strongest growth in earnings. "Large and small cap stocks continue to lag mid caps with the latter outperforming ...

Resources ready to power the ASX 200 in 04/05

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2004
... experts in CommSec\'s latest industry quarterly estimate the S&P/ASX 200 will return 19.5% over the coming year, with the materials sector, dominated by resources companies, emerging as the star performer. Stocks in this sector are expected to increase ...

Small caps rank highest in July; Mercer

... gain since August last year. In a month when the Australian share market again touched record highs, the energy and materials sector produced the strongest results, up 7.2% and 4.1% respectively according to Mercer. Fund performance was also in line ...

Schroders sticks with long term investment strategy

... overvalued and favouring stocks with low leverage and strong cash flow. The investment manager said retailer's, building materials and services companies are currently enjoying unsustainably buoyant conditions while it also remained concerned over the ...

Australia performs strongly in global sector survey; S&P

... health care and IT while in all but two other sectors Australia ranked second on a global comparative basis. In the materials sector, Australian companies return an average 4.8% behind only Latin American firms at 5.8%, while within the world of industrials ...

News Corp exit will not hurt ASX, says Humphry

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2004
... Channel Nine\'s Business Sunday, Humphry said the ASX will also carry out its own investigation into embattled building materials company James Hardie Industries. James Hardie is currently the subject of a NSW inquiry into a fund it established to handle ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2004
... producer Alcoa Inc, on concerns that credit restrictions in China could slow its growth and curb its huge appetite for raw materials. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 135.56 points, or 1.29%, to 10,342.60. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index dropped ...

Merchandise imports down in January: ABS

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2004
... animals fell to $408 million while machinery and transport equipment dropped to $4.4 billion. Mineral fuels and related materials imports fell to $748 million and chemicals and related products, the only category to rise, was up to $1.22 billion. The ...

Former MFM executive turns up at Schroders

... was at BT Funds Management for 14 years and occupied the positions of portfolio manager, head of the global energy and materials sector, and head of Australian resources.

Lend Lease at ease with market forecasts on 2004 profit

... costs "due to the long-running housing boom". "This has been exacerbated in Canberra, with some substantial increases in materials and labour supply costs subsequent to the bushfires there last summer," he said. "However, this does not change our earnings ...