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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... weighed on local banks and resources - the largest elements in the stock market - despite a 0.9 per cent rise in consumer staples after Woolworths' figures helped investor confidence in the sector. "Uncertainty is still weighing on the market," Burrel ...

Investors looking backwards: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... was materials with 25% allocation in September and a calendar return of -24.1% while third position was held by consumer staples with an 8% allocation and a return of -0.4%. According to Mercer, the biggest change of the year in regards to fund manager ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... Australian shares had held on to their slight opening gains at noon, led by defensive sectors such as healthcare and consumer staples. At 1225 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 24.8 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 4253.4, while the broader ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... sectors, with typically defensive sectors lagging behind, as money flowed into riskier stocks. Health care and consumer staples rose 0.15 per cent and 0.51 per cent, respectively. The weakest stock of the top 100 companies on the ASX was biopharmaceutical ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... said it had increased its iron ore reserves at the Nyidinghu deposit by 980 million tonnes. Typically defensive consumer staples were the only stocks to gain ground by noon, rising 0.28 per cent. Woolworths pulled the sector higher, gaining 1.3 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... $16.86. Fairfax Media was the strongest stock on the ASX 100, rising 3.4 per cent, or three cents, to 93 cents. But consumer staples and health care stocks fell 0.43 and 0.19 per cent respectively. "A lot of people were hiding in these sort of sectors ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... $4.00, with OceanaGold Corp was 17 cents or 7.1 per cent higher at $2.55. Local players also poured money into consumer staples in early trade, with the sector trading 1.13 per cent higher. Wesfarmers was the top performing stock in the top 20, trading ...

Invesco shifts Asian focus to consumer demand

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... stocks, focusing on the IT, travel and tourism and finance sectors, as well as the more obvious discretionary and consumer staples. "Another thing we've been conscious of is to ensure we have country diversification because the way the Chinese economy ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... energy companies, Woodside and Santos, are going to come back a little bit today," he said. "I'm not expecting the consumer staples - Wesfarmers and Woolies - to do a lot." At 1010 AEST, both major miners were more than one and a half per cent lower. ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... stock markets, which is why experienced investors refer to them as leading markets. Oil, silver, sugar, copper and other staples for both consumers and producers have fallen severely in price of late. The selling may still be escalating." Less subject ...

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Australian Unity lashed by ASIC over TMD questionnaire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |   12:41PM
Australian Unity Funds Management has been told to stop offering its Select Income Fund, with ASIC saying retail clients are unlikely to understand the questionnaire used to determine whether they would be in the target market.

More businesses fold, unpaid super recovery measure to launch

KARREN VERGARA  |   12:41PM
As the number of business insolvencies spike, workers will soon be able to claim unpaid superannuation owed to them by defunct employers.

NZ Super awards mandate to Northern Trust

ANDREW MCKEAN  |   12:50PM
NZ Super has awarded a mandate to Northern Trust to use its Data Warehouse Solutions offering.

Sequoia chief learns his fate at EGM

ELIZA BAVIN  |   12:36PM
Sequoia chief executive Garry Crole has managed to hold onto his position after shareholders voted to keep him in the top spot at an extraordinary general meeting.

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