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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... 9,641 contracts traded. Wall Street stocks gained ground on Friday to post their best weekly gains in two months, as a surprise fall in the unemployment rate to nine per cent from 9.4 per cent helped neutralise lower than expected jobs creation. The ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
A leading fund manager argues that many investors are too pessimistic about the US and too optimistic about other markets, particularly China. Speaking at a lunch briefing yesterday, Martin Conlon, head of Australian equities at Schroder Investment ...

Speck of sand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... exports. No big loss on the global economy and financial markets if Egypt turns to sand if you ask me. And so I wasn't surprise when US equities turned out a positive performance after that Friday night shocker. The S&P 500 index closed 0.8 per cent ...

Levy disaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
The Australian stock market was slightly firmer at noon as the financial sector offset weaker resource stocks in morning trade. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 3.4 points, or 0.07 per cent, at 4,770.3 points, while the broader All ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... from Tourism Australia, US visitors will spend $3,300 per visitor compared to the $6,600 per Chinese visitor. Another surprise are high spending Indian visitors which even though they are expected to number half the visits from the US but spend one-third ...

Avoid AMP Aussie shares fund: Morningstar

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
Morningstar has rated the AMP Capital Australian Shares fund as 'avoid', citing instability in the investment team and high staff turnover as key reasons to the fund's rating. In a research note to advisers this morning, research house Morningstar said ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... Pelley on "60 Minutes". They didn't like it on its first run, they still didn't like it on replay. Personally, I wasn't surprise that he said what he said. Big Benny is the top money man. What he said is what you and I would expect from anyone who controls ...

More turbulence ahead: De Bever

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... Association (IMCA) conference in Sydney yesterday. De Bever's presence at the conference marks one of his rare visits after his surprise departure from VFMC in 2008 (staying with the fund for a year and a half). "It's bittersweet (being back) in a sense ...

Lower returns outlook will change allocation choices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... 7 per cent for their external debt as companies in these markets have to compete for capital. This is leading to the surprise outcome that it is the developed world markets and not the EMs that hold most of the sovereign risk, said Mauppin-Higashino. ...