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Morningstar Morning Research Update Monday, Feb 18, 2013

Monday, 18 February 2013, 11:10 am
Press Release: Morningstar

18-Feb-2013

Overseas Market Report

Stocks pared afternoon losses and finished mixed. Much focus was on economic data and earnings reports in the United States and cautious optimism about the G-20 summit that began in Moscow today. At the summit, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said that economic conditions are far from healthy, but he has hopes that the results from domestic policies in the US will help strengthen the global economy.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 8.37 points, or 0.06%, to 13,981.76 on Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 1.59 points, or 0.10%, to 1,519.79 and the Nasdaq Composite Index lost 6.63 points, or 0.21%, to 3,192.03... Read More

	Foreign Equities (18-Feb-2013 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
/	Dow Jones (US)	13982	8	0.06
/	S&P 500	1520	-2	-0.10
/	NASDAQ	3192	-7	-0.21
/	FTSE 100 Index	6328	1	0.01
/	DAX 30	7594	-38	-0.49
/	CAC 40	3660	-9	-0.25
/	Nikkei 225 (Japan)	11174	-133	-1.18
/	HKSE	23445	31	0.13
/	SSE Composite Index	2432	14	0.57
/	BSE Sensitive	19468	-29	-0.15
/	NZ 50	4197	-42	-1.00

	Commodities (18-Feb-2013 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
/	Aluminium	2127	12	0.58
/	Copper	8172	-33	-0.40
/	Nickel	18312	125	0.69
/	Gold	1609	-26	-1.57
/	Silver	29.7	-0.8	-2.52
/	Oil - West Texas crude	96.4	-0.6	-0.61
/	Lead	2421	27	1.12
/	Zinc	2147	-16	-0.76

	Currency (18-Feb-2013 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
/	$A vs $US	1.0292	0.0010	0.10
/	$A vs GBP	0.6638	-0.0002	-0.03
/	$A vs YEN	96.37	-0.02	-0.02
/	$A vs EUR	0.7710	0.0002	0.02
/	$A vs $NZ	1.2191	0.0003	0.02
/	$US vs Euro	0.7491	-0.0008	-0.11
/	$US vs UK	0.6448	-0.0004	-0.07
/	$US vs CHF	0.9223	-0.0010	-0.11

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	Shares (5)
/	ANZ Bank (ANZ)		Accumulate
/	Charter Hall Retail (CQR)		Hold
/	DUET (DUE)		Reduce
/	Mineral Resources (MIN)	/	Reduce
/	Rio Tinto (RIO)		Accumulate

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