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Morningstar Morning Research Update Friday, Dec 14, 2012

Friday, 14 December 2012, 11:19 am
Press Release: Morningstar

14-Dec-2012
Overseas Market Report

US stocks finished lower as woes over the fiscal cliff and less than stellar economic data dragged on sentiment.

Initial unemployment claims fell 29,000 last week to 343,000, well below the 367,000 claims expected by economists. The data comes after last week’s payroll data which showed that the US economy added a better-than-expected 146,000 jobs in November... Read More

	Foreign Equities (14-Dec-2012 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
/	Dow Jones (US)	13171	-75	-0.56
/	S&P 500	1419	-9	-0.63
/	NASDAQ	2992	-22	-0.72
/	FTSE 100 Index	5930	-16	-0.27
/	DAX 30	7582	-33	-0.43
/	CAC 40	3643	-4	-0.10
/	Nikkei 225 (Japan)	9743	161	1.68
/	HKSE	22446	-58	-0.26
/	SSE Composite Index	2061	-21	-1.02
/	BSE Sensitive	19229	-126	-0.65
/	NZ 50	3975	-21	-0.51

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	Commodities (14-Dec-2012 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
/	Aluminium	2133	-8	-0.40
/	Copper	8052	-53	-0.66
/	Nickel	17636	4	0.02
/	Gold	1696	3	0.15
/	Silver	32.5	0.8	2.55
/	Oil - West Texas crude	86.8	1.0	1.13
/	Lead	2289	-16	-0.69
/	Zinc	2050	-21	-1.00

	Currency (14-Dec-2012 / Close)	Close	Change	% Change
/	$A vs $US	1.0524	0.0021	0.20
/	$A vs GBP	0.6531	0.0003	0.05
/	$A vs YEN	88.00	-0.26	-0.29
/	$A vs EUR	0.8047	0.0022	0.27
/	$A vs $NZ	1.2478	0.0032	0.26
/	$US vs Euro	0.7646	0.0007	0.09
/	$US vs UK	0.6207	-0.0010	-0.16
/	$US vs CHF	0.9235	0.0030	0.32

Research Updates (9)

	Special Reports (0)
	There were no special reports published on the previous business day.

	Funds (4)
/	Advance Australian Shares Multi-Blend (4865)		Neutral
/	Advance Australian Smaller Companies Multi-Blend (12136)		Neutral
/	BlackRock Indexed Australian Bond (9093)		Bronze
/	Platinum Asia (9894)	/	Silver

	Shares (5)
/	APN (APN)		Under Review
/	Bendigo Adelaide Bnk (BEN)	/	Hold
/	Iluka Resources (ILU)		Accumulate
/	Macmahon Holdings (MAH)		Hold
/	Woodside Petroleum (WPL)		Buy

	ETFs (0)
	There were no research reports published on the previous business day.

	Fixed Income (0)
	There were no research reports published on the previous business day.

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