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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... report increased concerns the housing slowdown could spread into the broader economy and hurt profits. Lennar Corp, a major US home builder, scrapped its 2007 outlook as it posted a 73.4 per cent slide in quarterly profit a day after government data ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... sharpest drop in a decade. That led to waves of selling on Wall Street and in stock markets around the world. For the three major US stock indices, this week's plunge wiped out their gains for the year. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 120.24 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2006
... Israel-Lebanon conflict, the increase in oil flowing as a result of the partial recovery from the March shutdown of the major US oil field at Prudhoe Bay and the announcement last week by Chevron that the high-tech success of record deep sea drilling ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2006
The stock market is expected to open lower after a weak lead from Wall Street after all three major US stocks indexes fell more than one per cent. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was DOWN 28 points to 5072 at ...

MacarthurCook sets sail for Singapore

... 5.5 per cent. Dunstan said that prospective investors in the fund will also benefit from MacarthurCook's link up with a major US property fund manager who has signed a contract with the group to become their investment advisor and manager for the Asia ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
... developments on the raft of mergers that are ongoing or near completion in the domestic market. NEW YORK - The three major US stock indexes posted their best gains in a year, driven by a surge in energy shares after oil prices hit a record high and as ...

Market wrap

... stocks, tied to worries about the US economy and fourth-quarter holiday spending, helped push the Nasdaq lower. The three major US stock indexes dropped by more than one per cent, erasing most of the gains from Monday's rally. The biggest drag on the ...

Bravura gets bigger

... are leading the way in this market." he says. He explains that Bravura has managed to tap into business segments that major US software companies have overlooked because the deals are not substantial enough. "The contracts we do may be too small for ...

Lonsec approves of Mariner's foray into US property

... Trust aims to use a US real estate investment trust structure to progressively acquire portfolio of investments in the major US property markets with a focus on retail and office properties with quality tenants that are expected to provide stable income. ...

Active US fund managers underperform

The majority of active US fund managers have underperformed the major US sharemarket indices for the six months-ending 30 June 2004, ratings agency and benchmark operator Standard & Poor's said in a report. According to S&P, the S&P-500 index outperformed ...