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Morning Shot

28th February 18 By: Morning Shot

The three major US bourses fell an average if 1.28% yesterday and the Asia Pac area followed. The Nikkei closed lower by 1.38%, ASX down 0.68% and the Shanghai Comp. 1.00%. Analysts cited new Fed ...

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Persimmon: 'a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'

28th February 18 By: David Harbage

Today’s announcement of Persimmon’s final results for 2017 pleased investors, with a strong financial performance highlighted by an increase in its Capital Return Plan – in the fo...

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Morning Shot

27th February 18 By: Morning Shot

US indices kicked off the week in a positive fashion up an average of 1.20%, The Nikkei and ASX have followed suit up 1.04% and 0.24% respectively. No such good news in China where we have a sea of r...

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Morning Shot

26th February 18 By: Morning Shot

Equity markets over in the Asia Pac area have followed last weeks Friday US closed and are positive. The Shanghai Comp. (1.25%) outperforms, closely followed by the Nikkei (1.22%) and the ASX is...

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Reflect and Prepare

23rd February 18 By: Reflect & Prepare

US markets were dominated by the FOMC minutes which shed little fresh light other than what was revealed in the statement at the end of the 31 Jan meeting.  That said, the market took the wordin...

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Morning Shot

23rd February 18 By: Morning Shot

Mixed in the US yesterday with the Nasdaq (-0.11%) down and the S&P (0.10%) and Dow (0.60%) trading higher. The Nikkei, Shanghai Comp. and ASX all closed higher by an average of 0.68%. ...

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Morning Shot

22nd February 18 By: Morning Shot

In the US the three main bourses closed negatively after the FOMC meeting minutes. The Nikkei followed suit and closed down 1.18%, the ASX held strong to trade higher by 0.12% and on its first day ba...

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Morning Shot

21st February 18 By: Morning Shot

After a good start the US bourses closed in the red yesterday and in the Asia Pac region they bucked the trend with a positive close in the ASX (0.05%) and Nikkei (0.32%) We are mostly r...

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Morning Shot

20th February 18 By: Morning Shot

After a quiet day yesterday due to closures in the US, Japan and China the ASX (-0.01%) and Nikkei (-1.12%)  both traded in negative territory. Chinese markets are still closed and will reo...

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Morning Shot

19th February 18 By: Morning Shot

Should be a quiet start to the week as China and the US are off for public holidays. However the ASX in Australia was open today and closed 0.64% higher.  It's a bit of a mixed bag in commodi...

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Reflect & Prepare

16th February 18 By: Reflect & Prepare

It has been an interesting week in the US financial markets, with Treasury yields rising causing all sorts of mayhem in the markets.  Wall Street took a sharp know at the end of the previous wee...

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Morning Shot

16th February 18 By: Morning Shot

Mixed in the Asia Pac region after another positive close in the US, the ASX closed lower 0.08%, while the Nikkei 225 traded higher by 1.18%. The Shanghai Comp also closed in positive territory gaini...

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Morning Shot

15th February 18 By: Morning Shot

A positive session for Wall St. once again yesterday and Asia followed suit with the Nikkei up 1.40%, ASX 1.16% and the Shanghai Comp. 0.46%. In commodities markets nickels great run continues, pr...

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Not all builders are the same.

15th February 18 By: David Harbage

As consumers we tend to be careful in selecting tradespeople or builders to carry out work on our homes. Similarly, as investors, we should be circumspect in our selection of individual listed compan...

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Morning Shot

14th February 18 By: Morning Shot

As the US bourses ticked up slightly in the Asia Pac area there was no such luck. The Nikkei 225 traded lower by 0.48% as JPY strength persists and the ASX followed suit and is down 0.25%, no such st...

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Morning Shot

13th February 18 By: Morning Shot

US bourses closed higher by an average of 1.50% yesterday and in the Asia Pac region, the Nikkei opened up again after a public holiday and closed lower by 0.75%. The ASX (0.60%) and the Shanghai Com...

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Morning Shot

12th February 18 By: Morning Shot

Asian equities have started the week mixed, over in China the Shanghai Comp. trades higher by 0.76% but in Japan the Nikkei 225 is closed for a public holiday. The commodities heavy ASX is trading lo...

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Reflect and Prepare

9th February 18 By: Reflect & Prepare

US Treasury yields have pushed higher in the past week, wreaking havoc in the equity markets as the era of cheap money looks to have come to an end.  Driving Wall Street indices to meteoric leve...

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Morning Shot

9th February 18 By: Morning Shot

The equities rout continues over in the States yesterday with the Dow worst hit down 4.15%. In the Asia Pac area it was no different with the Nikkei 225 down 2.17%, ASX down 0.89% and the Shanghai Co...

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Morning Shot

8th February 18 By: Morning Shot

American shares had a negative session again last night with the S&P falling half a percent. The Nikkei 225 (1.17%) and the ASX 0.24%) bucked the trend trading positively. China was very mixed as...

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