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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
... was a new round of mergers and acquisitions, which raised hopes for the US economy. Financial shares rose after insurer American International Group Inc reached a deal to sell one of its major foreign divisions to MetLife Inc for $US15.5 billion ($A17.09 ...

Vice fund underperforms S&P 500 by 13pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... The fund's concentrated portfolio holds Phillip Morris International, Lorillard, Lockhead Martin Corporation, British American Tobacco, Carlsberg and Raytheon. The fund is distributed Quasar Distributors in the US.

AXA Framlington eyes Japanese tech firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... million under management invested across around 88 stocks. More than 35 per cent of the portfolio is invested in North American companies and nearly 15 per cent is invested in the UK, according to the fund's holdings in December. "If you're going to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... since being rescued by the government and reports of a new bailout package for Greece. The market got a lift Monday after American International Group Inc. agreed to sell its Asian life insurance business to Britain's Prudential PLC for $US35.5 billion ...

Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... fell to record lows and sales of existing ones were not any better. As such, whatever the measure you use - the price of American homes are again heading south. And then there's also the renewed climb in initial jobless claims. Woe to the US labour market. ...

Wall Street's $22bn bitter pill

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
New York City's securities employee bonuses rose 17 per cent to just over $22 billion last year bringing the payments back to pre-2005 levels, according to estimates from the US state's comptroller. Thomas DiNapoli, state comptroller at the office of ...

Trader's market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... could slack off and just point you guys to my commentary last Wednesday morning when we woke up to discover that the American stock market has sold off while we were sleeping. The song remains the same. All I have to do is change the "cause" of the decline ...

Hasting sells off HUT stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... and energy. Working with clients through operations in Asia and Australasia the UK and Europe and in every major North American city, RBC Capital Markets provides capital markets products and services from 75 offices in 15 countries. RBC Capital Markets ...

Good news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... night's US economic data releases. Remember that inventory de-stocking that was prevalent over the past months? Seems that American businesses have chopped down their inventories enough and are now starting to re-stock their shelves. Industrial production ...

State Street gains Charles Schwab ETF admin

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... ETF and Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF. State Street launched the first ever ETF in 1993 in partnership with the American Stock Exchange. The firm has more than $20 trillion in assets under custody and administration.