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Weekly Market Outlook

The Dow Jones index was up 29.9 points on Friday, or 0.3%, with the S&P 500 up 0.3% and the Nasdaq higher by 15pts or 0.6%. Over the week, the Dow Jones rose by 2.3% with the S&P up 2.7% and Nasdaq lifted by 3.1%.

On the currency front, the Australia Dollar continues to hold above parity, trading at $US1.0133, while in commodities, Gold is holding steady at $US1,344.50 an ounce and Oil is fetching $US89.03 per barrel.

US non-farm payrolls report was well short of expectations, rising by just 36,000 in January. The weakness was attributed to harsh snow storms in the month. The jobless rate plunged from 9.4% to 9%. Hourly earnings jumped by 0.4%.

This week in the US, the Treasury will auction US$72 billion of three and ten-year notes and thirty year bonds.

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Company	Closing date	Floating date	Issue price
Anagen Limited	-	15/02/2011	$0.20
Black Mountain Resources Limited	-	-	$0.20
Condor Blanco Mines Limited	-	7/02/2011	$0.20
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Company	Update	Current price	Brokers	Buy, Hold, Sell	Research report
Riversdale Mining Limited	24/12/2011	$16.00	7	Hold
Perseus Mining Limited	24/12/2011	$2.83	3	Hold	-
Qantas Airways Limited	7/02/2011	$2.43	8	Hold
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Company	Date of change	Quantity	Change Type	Research report
Brazilian Metals Group Limited (BMG)	3/02/2011	500,000	Acquired	-
Brazilian Metals Group Limited (BMG)	3/02/2011	500,000	Acquired	-
MacarthurCook Property Securities Fund (MPS)	3/02/2011	1,408,911	Acquired	-
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Company	Comment	Dividend per share	Franking	Ex-dividend date	Payment date
Crane Group Limited (CRG)	2010 Half Year Result	22 ¢	100%	8/02/2011	22/02/2011
TABCORP Holdings Limited (TAH)	2010 Half Year Result	24 ¢	100%	8/02/2011	21/03/2011
Navitas Limited (NVT)	2010 Half Year Result	8.7 ¢	100%	8/02/2011	28/02/2011
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Hurley-burly of a buyout pays nicely

Sydney Morning Herald 7/02/2011 | T here appear to be some overlapping wages and bonuses being paid out by the troubled property group Valad (aka Invalid).

Banks do it tougher but pain won't last

Sydney Morning Herald 7/02/2011 | As the economy continues to chug along at a decent rate, you might expect the country's big four banks to be creaming it on the back of an accompanying growth in credit.

Stagnant market likely after last year's house price boom

Sydney Morning Herald 7/02/2011 | I t's not news vendors want to hear at the beginning of the year, but the outlook for house prices over the next 12 months is a far cry from the sky-scraping highs seen early last year.

House prices: boom times are behind us

The Age 7/02/2011 | The property market soared in the first half of 2010; there is almost universal agreement that there won't be a repeat of this in 2011 most analysts expect it to be a case of "steady as she goes".

Mining, health and carbon tax issues could lead to credibility crash and backdown

Sydney Morning Herald 7/02/2011 | THE federal government's credibility is about to take another battering as some of its more complex and ad hoc tax reforms - the mining tax and the takeover of GST funding from the states - move to the centre stage in the next few weeks.

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