Axa chops bourse down to size
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THE Australian market was dragged down by a sharp drop in insurance giant Axa Asia Pacific Holdings to close lower yesterday. The benchmark S&amp;P/ASX 200 index finished 10.
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Wall Street's written off more than $100 billion in bum assets since summer. Now for the bad news.
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Pulling a growth stock off the value investor's plate.
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A good quarter is greeted with a lower share price.
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After another sub-par quarter, should investors throw in the towel?
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AXA Asia Pacific shares dropped 44 cents or 10 per cent in early trading this morning following an announcement the group had terminated talks with its French parent AXA SA over a proposed minority buyout deal.
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XSTRATA saw its shares fall 1.4 per cent yesterday after the London-listed miner said it was taking its A$7.4 billion (Â£3.12bn) offer for Australiaâs WMC Resources hostile, following a rebuff from the WMC board last month.
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The Dow Jones industrial average closed down nearly 200 points, or 1.5 percent.
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A profit warning from Coca-Cola took the fizz out of leading Wall St shares and sent the main indices sharply lower. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones was down 86.
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The Australian sharemarket closed lower today, dragged down by weakness in resources and media stocks. The benchmark S&amp;P/ASX 200 index was 14.
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Bernanke chops 3/4 of a point, but the markets fall in early trading anyway.
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Australian stocks fell, led by Axa Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd., after Axa SA, its parent, withdrew aA$3.4 billion ($2.5 billion) offer for the shares of the company it doesn&#39;t already own.
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Monday's global sell-off of stocks brings equity markets in line with the gloom that has pervaded credit markets for months.
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The company talks down a recent inexplicable stock run-up.
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These mulitstar stocks have had big price cuts in the past month.
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Some stocks to consider in the wake of the Fed cut.
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Driving the companyâs loss, which amounts to $31.85 a share, was a $5.21 billion write-down on its portfolio of credit derivatives.