Funds close out 2004 with strong showings
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NEW YORK -- Wall Street's fourth-quarter rally gave stock mutual funds a solid performance for 2004, with small-cap equity funds and real estate funds scoring some of the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the slimmest gains.
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Stocks ended sharply higher on Wednesday after a pullback in benchmark bond yields and signs of strength in the economy.
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Stocks rallied Wednesday, with the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 closing at new all-time highs, as investors found momentum at the end of a tumultuous session on Wall Street.
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Investors spent much of 2004 fretting over rising interest rates, surging oil prices and the presidential election. Analysts were more optimistic.
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Hong Kong&#39;s benchmark stock index completed a second year of gains, its first consecutive advance since 1996. Banks and developers rose in 2004&#39;s final trading day on optimism a rebound in the property market will be sustained.
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ATI saw its income almost triple during its most recently completed fiscal quarter, Q4 2004, the company said yesterday after announcing record results.
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After ringing in the New Year, investors may now want to raise one last toast to 2004, as the stock market delivered a year-ending performance worth celebrating.
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These international funds still shine, even after closing their doors.
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U.S. stocks ended the last day of 2004  slightly down on Friday, but the main U.S. indexes posted their  second successive year of gains following a fourth-quarter  rally.
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For an aging, scandal-ridden business beset by new competitors, mutual funds have just had a pretty good year.
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Global equity and balanced mutual funds  proved to be hot sellers with Canadian investors in November,  representing the biggest components of the month's C$2.6  billion ($2.2 billion) in net fund sales, an industry group  said on Friday.
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Citigroup Inc. was in 2004 Wall  Street's busiest stock and bond underwriter for the fifth year  in a row, amid the welcome resurgence in investor demand for  equities and surprisingly strong sentiment for bonds.
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U.S. blue chips ended higher on  Thursday, their first positive finish in 2005, with investors  encouraged by a strengthening dollar and December sales figures  from retailers.
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The leading share index closed in positive territory on Tuesday thanks to a strong recovery from the financial sector which was bolstered by news that billionaire investor Warren Buffett will help troubled bond insurers.
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The company's fourth-quarter earnings beat analyst expectations.
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Over time, dividend payments represent a large fraction of investors' total returns.
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WASHINGTON, August 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Fund managers this month boosted the proportion of assets held in cash to the highest level since March 2003 when a global stocks rebound began, said the Washington Post on Wednesday.