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Morningstar Morning Research Update Thur, Feb 14, 2013

Thursday, 14 February 2013, 11:10 am
Press Release: Morningstar

14-Feb-2013

Overseas Market Report

Stocks were mixed as investors digested data, earnings reports, and President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, particularly his comments on the economy.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 35.79 points, or 0.26%, to 13,982.91 on Wednesday. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 0.90 points, or 0.06%, to 1,520.33 and the Nasdaq Composite Index gained 10.39 points, or 0.33%, to 3,196.88... Read More

Foreign Equities (14-Feb-2013 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
Dow Jones (US)	13983	-36	-0.26
S&P 500	1520	1	0.06
NASDAQ	3197	10	0.33
FTSE 100 Index	6359	21	0.33
DAX 30	7712	52	0.67
CAC 40	3699	12	0.32
Nikkei 225 (Japan)	11251	-118	-1.04
HKSE	23215	38	0.16
SSE Composite Index	2432	14	0.57
BSE Sensitive	19608	47	0.24
NZ 50	4221	-3	-0.07

Commodities (14-Feb-2013 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
Aluminium	2100	22	1.05
Copper	8190	-9	-0.11
Nickel	18305	8	0.04
Gold	1642	-4	-0.23
Silver	30.7	0.4	1.37
Oil - West Texas crude	97.5	0.5	0.53
Lead	2388	-13	-0.54
Zinc	2169	-16	-0.73

Currency (14-Feb-2013 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
$A vs $US	1.0346	--	-0.10
$A vs GBP	0.6658	-0.0100	-0.96
$A vs YEN	96.70	-0.27	-0.28
$A vs EUR	0.7693	--	-0.14
$A vs $NZ	1.2293	--	-0.03
$US vs Euro	0.7436	--	-0.03
$US vs UK	0.6435	-0.0100	-0.88
$US vs CHF	0.9173	--	-0.07

Research Updates (22)

	Special Reports (3)
	Asset Class Performance: January 2013
	Growth Chart: Asset Class Performance: January 2013
	Morningstar Peer Group Performance: June 2013

	Funds (2)
	Colonial First State Equity Income (16354)
	Realindex Global Share (16880)

	Shares (17)
	Boral (BLD)		Hold
	BWP Trust (BWP)		Hold
	Commonwealth Bank (CBA)		Hold
	Computershare (CPU)		Hold
	Carsales.com (CRZ)		Reduce
	CSL (CSL)		Reduce
	Domino's Pizza Enterprises (DMP)		Reduce
	DWS (DWS)		Reduce
	Goodman Fielder (GFF)		Avoid
	Leighton (LEI)		Hold
	ALE Property (LEP)		Hold
	Metcash (MTS)		Hold
	OZ Minerals (OZL)		Hold
	Stockland (SGP)		Hold
	SkyCity (SKC)		Accumulate
	SkyCity (SKC-NZ)		Accumulate
	WorleyParsons (WOR)		Hold

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