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Morningstar Morning Research Update Thursday, Jan 24, 2013

Thursday, 24 January 2013, 10:53 am
Press Release: Morningstar

24-Jan-2013

Overseas Market Report
Stocks ended slightly higher after the House of Representatives passed a measure to suspend the debt ceiling until May. The bill is expected to be approved by the Senate and signed by President Obama. Investors also kept a close watch on corporate earnings reports.

In regard to economic data, the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that home prices in November rose by 0.6%, seasonally adjusted, from the previous month, marking the 10th straight month of an increase. The gain was just below the expected 0.7% increase, but overall prices were 5.6% higher year over year. Separately, both Redbook and the International Council of Shopping Centres reported decreases in weekly retail sales. .. Read More

	Foreign Equities (24-Jan-2013 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
/	Dow Jones (US)	13779	67	0.49
/	S&P 500	1495	2	0.15
/	NASDAQ	3154	10	0.33
/	FTSE 100 Index	6198	18	0.30
/	DAX 30	7708	11	0.15
/	CAC 40	3726	-15	-0.40
/	Nikkei 225 (Japan)	10487	-223	-2.08
/	HKSE	23635	-24	-0.10
/	SSE Composite Index	2321	6	0.25
/	BSE Sensitive	20027	45	0.23
/	NZ 50	4188	2	0.04

	Commodities (24-Jan-2013 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
/	Aluminium	2039	1	0.04
/	Copper	8073	-29	-0.36
/	Nickel	17483	170	0.98
/	Gold	1686	-8	-0.50
/	Silver	32.3	-0.1	-0.26
/	Oil - West Texas crude	96.7	0.7	0.71
/	Lead	2362	47	2.01
/	Zinc	2066	31	1.51

	Currency (24-Jan-2013 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
/	$A vs $US	1.0551	--	0.08
/	$A vs GBP	0.6656	--	0.17
/	$A vs YEN	93.57	-0.11	-0.11
/	$A vs EUR	0.7919	--	0.15
/	$A vs $NZ	1.2532	--	0.19
/	$US vs Euro	0.7506	--	0.07
/	$US vs UK	0.6309	--	0.08
/	$US vs CHF	0.9290	--	0.05

Research Updates (19)

	Special Reports (1)
/	Australian Economic Update - January 2013

	Funds (4)
/	Colonial First State Global Soft Commodity Share (18164)	Bronze
/	Lazard Global Small Companies (10701)	Neutral
/	Perpetual Geared Australian Share (9835)	Bronze
/	Perpetual Industrial Australian Share (4362)	Bronze

	Shares (14)
/	AMP Limited (AMP)	/	Accumulate
/	BHP Billiton (BHP)		Accumulate
/	Boral (BLD)		Reduce
/	Brambles (BXB)		Reduce
/	Crown (CWN)		Hold
/	Downer EDI (DOW)	/	Reduce
/	DWS (DWS)	/	Hold
/	GUD Holdings (GUD)		Hold
/	IOOF (IFL)		Hold
/	Nufarm (NUF)		Hold
/	SkyCity (SKC)	/	Accumulate
/	SkyCity (SKC-NZ)	/	Accumulate
/	Sydney Airport (SYD)	/	Hold
/	Western Areas (WSA)		Hold

	ETFs (0)
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	Fixed Income (0)
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