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...That compares with a year to date performance for the S&P 500 of 7 per cent, and 14 per cent for the Nasdaq Composite....
...They have assigned virtually unanimous “buy” recommendations to investors on all companies in the Shanghai Composite index, the country’s leading stock index....
...In China, the Shanghai Composite was down 1.3 per cent, while the tech-focused Shenzhen Composite was 0.5 per cent lower....
...The sharp deterioration in appetite for “risky” assets such as equities helped fuel “flight-to-quality” buying of US and German government debt, the Japanese yen, and gold....
...The higher quality bean, used in espressos and cappuccinos, fell to levels not seen since September 2009, with the ICE coffee benchmark for September delivery hitting $1.273 a pound. http://on.ft.com/18BRcUm...
...purchase of Harbinger iron-mine stake Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is nearing agreement to buy a stake in a closely held Brazilian iron ore mining company from Phil Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners LLC...
...However, the Shanghai composite closed down 1.3 per cent at 1991.2 points, the first time since early 2009 it has closed below the 2000 mark....
...“Investors are heading to the safety of names offering quality and yield,” said Andrew Wilkinson, Chief Economic Strategist at Miller Tabak....
...On both players, I found video quality was generally good using my home cable broadband connection, though not up to Blu-ray standards, and video quality does vary considerably depending on the source....
...“This is, unfortunately, complete nonsense”, he says, continuing: The quality of both governance and the legal system is dramatically superior in Brazil to Indonesia....
...The Nasdaq Composite index was up 9.5 per cent to 1,649.47 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 10.9 per cent to 9,065.12....
...Mr Arnott says backtesting of a composite of the RAFI indices showed an excess of returns over a market cap benchmark of 2 per cent a year since 1962....
...It followed a sharp correction in US markets this month, with the technology-dominated Nasdaq Composite index falling 7.5 per cent in the past two weeks....
...Concerns about earnings quality were magnified as unrest in Nigeria and continued tension with Iran sent crude oil to more than $66 a barrel in New York....
...The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.2 per cent to 2,175.81....
...The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index was almost 1 per cent up at 2,165.07....
...The broader S&P 500 fell 8.27 points, or 0.7 per cent, to 1,196.02, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 26.37 points, or 1.3 per cent, to 2,071.43....
...Mr Hermann said portfolio managers will continue to rotate into higher quality stocks for which the slowdown will not be so tough....
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