Why Asx Keeps On Keeping On

Here's one stock you'll find hard to lose on, David Potts writes.

Faint-hearted Tips For Telstra

The worst may be over, say some analysts, but they're not issuing any 'buy' listings.

Tiny Exchanges Have A Quiet Day Or Two

AMONG the more eye-popping deals this year was the takeover of the Bendigo Stock Exchange (BSX) by the Stock Exchange of Newcastle, or to use its listed name, NSX.

Asx Laps Up Market Boom Record Profit But Dividend Disappoints

The booming sharemarket has pushed the Australian Stock Exchange to a record full-year profit, topping $100 million.

Booming Asx Cops The Cane

The booming sharemarket has pushed the Australian Stock Exchange to a record full-year profit topping $100 million for the first time.

Simply No Time To Take Stock For Mr 24/7

It's non-stop dealing for Austock chief John Wheeler - and things are about to get heavier, writes Rod Myer.

Analysts Check Out The Village Show

UBS is mulling over a couple of options with the $362 million buyback plan. A week after Village Roadshow sent the price of its preference shares soaring by announcing a $362 million buyback of its non-voting stock, analysts are still working through all the ramifications of the deal. Analyst

Asx Beats Downturn With 4pc Lift

The Australian Stock Exchange yesterday surprised the market with better-than-expected earnings in the six months to December 31, 2001.

Asx Surprises The Market With A Nice Figure

The Australian Stock Exchange yesterday surprised the market with earnings for the six months to December 31 that were better than expected.

News Soars To Record Price

An exceedingly bullish broker's report from News Corporation's house broker Merrill Lynch pushed the stock into record territory yesterday and added $5.3billion to the company's market value. The Merrill Lynch analyst Ms Jessica Reif Cohen predicted News's American depositary receipts (each of wh

The Float Is Becoming A More Buoyant It Proposition

THROW away trendy Internet investment doctrine, the fundamentals are making a comeback. Over the past three years, United States investors have been brainwashed to look to the sky when it comes to expected returns. Australians have been slower to jump, but if the recent rash of proposed listings

From Videos To Invidious

The fall of Network Entertainment is a lesson for small private investors on the lack of protection they have in investing in new listings and the pitfalls in putting money into sexy, so-called growth industries. It is also a lesson in not placing faith in big names and big promises. There is

Big-name Floats Can Trap Small Investors

The romantic notion of owning a share of an Australian legend has lured many new investors into company listings in recent years and, with some big-name floats coming up, many more will be drawn to the sharemarket for the first time. But, as PHILIPPA TYNDALE reports, cold hard judgment, not sentime

High-tech Stocks Often Low-tech Performers For Investors

AFTER a boom in late 1993 and early 1994, shares in technology stocks have plummeted to dangerous lows and many have been given the unflattering title "dog stock" by brokers. But do technology stocks deserve this bad reputation? Australian investors enviously watching the skyrocketi

Floats Fail To Rise To The Occasion

A weak market during 1994-'95 has not augured well for new listings. James Dunn reports. REFLECTING the weak state of the sharemarket for most of last year, 1994-'95 was a relatively poor year for company floats. During the financial year, floats were called off, or went ahead with large underwr

Tying The Chinese Business Knot

INVESTMENT banker Richard Li describes himself as a ``marriage broker" for Chinese and Australian businesses, bringing them together in unions that are not always easy but that generally prove positive for the participants. Mr Li has been creating his cross-cultural liaisons for the past 11

Providing Big Yields For Mums And Dads

SMALL investors stand to gain from a much bigger choice of listed fixed-interest securities as the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) moves to encourage more issues to the retail market. Fixed-interest securities, including notes and debentures, are usually offered to big, institutional inves

Floats Starting To Lose Their Allure For Investors

There are signs that the market for new floats is suffering from a mild bout of indigestion. It is not such a bad thing given the weight of listings over the past 12 months but it does not bode well for several issues already in train and planning to join the lists in the next few weeks. T

Gio Tops New Listings

The underwriters of the $1.2billion float of GIO Australia were net sellers of GIO shares yesterday as the former New South Wales Government-owned insurance office listed at a lower-than-expected premium. GIO shares opened at $2.68, a 28-cent premium to the $2.40 issue price, but quickly settled

Perth's Second Board Blues

PERTH: Perth's second board market has plunged $118 million into the red in the last financial year, with more than half its listings still to lodge trading reports. Thirty of the 48 companies to have lodged trading reports for the year to June 30 posted bottom line losses totalling $118 m