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Market wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... 12 points to 5,409 on a volume of 12,766 contracts. ABN AMRO Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said lower commodities prices overnight had put downward pressure on the big miners. "Metals are a bit weaker overnight in London and that's having ...

UBS launches soft com and Asia prod

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
UBS launched its Global Access Fund to provide self managed super funds and other investors exposure to the soft commodities and the emerging markets. The UBS Global Access Fund is a structured product that provides exposure to the UBS Bloomberg CMCI ...

Population hits 21.2 million

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... way, net inward migration is one-and-a-half times what is required to replace the people in Australia who die. The commodities boom is causing huge distortions in the State growth patterns. According to the ABS, the frontier States of Western Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... inflation was a concern, which helped push the US dollar up. A stronger US dollar means generally lower prices for commodities. "The speculators are unwinding in the big players like BHP and Rio," he said. At 1205 AEST, BHP Billiton was down $1.37, or ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
... that the American market was slightly in the green but then again that's better than being in the red,' he said. "Commodities were a bit on the low side but the dominant feature is a bit of recuperation from the battering the market overall has had over ...

QIC develops better anti-inflation strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
... property are actually not correlated with inflation spikes over short to medium-term periods. Inflation swaps and commodities provide the best hedge against inflation spikes." Portfolio protecting strategies should also not be limited to buying just ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
The Australian share market was down at noon as lower prices for commodities prompted selling in major resources, oil and gold stocks. The major banks also were weaker. CMC markets head of trading James Foulsham said although there had been a positive ...

ABN AMRO launches Altera

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... Securities, a five-year structured investment that provides equal exposure to emerging markets, global infrastructure and commodities with the security of a 100 per cent capital guarantee. The fund will provide exposure to Brazil, Russia, India and China ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... Ric Klusman said the market fell after the weakness in the US, and BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto fell on the decline in commodities. BHP fell $1.70, or 3.5 per cent, to $46.91 and Rio Tinto slipped $5.42, or 3.5 per cent, to $149.58. IAG declined 24 cents ...

AUD hits 24 year high against greenback

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... threshold level for their sustainability is a low US 85 cents, levels unlikely to be reached for decades if the current commodities boom continues to gather pace.