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A mastectomy is surgery to remove the entire breast. Most of the time, some of the skin and the nipple are also removed. The surgery is most often done to treat breast cancer .
Before surgery begins, you will be given general anesthesia . This means you will be asleep and pain-free during surgery.
There are different types of mastectomies. Which one your surgeon performs depends on the type of breast problem you have.
The surgeon will make a cut in your breast and perform one of these operations:
One or two small plastic drains or tubes are usually left in your chest to remove extra fluid from where the breast tissue used to be.
A plastic surgeon may be able to reconstruct the breast during the same operation. You may also choose to have breast reconstruction with implants or natural tissue later. If you have reconstruction, a skin or nipple sparing mastectomy may be an option. With skin sparing, the nipple and areola are removed along with the breast, but only a small amount of skin is removed. Nipple sparing mastectomy is removal of the breast, but leaving all of the skin and the nipple and areola.
Mastectomy will take about 2 to 3 hours.
Breast removal surgery; Subcutaneous mastectomy; Total mastectomy; Simple mastectomy; Modified radical mastectomy
The most common reason for a mastectomy is breast cancer.
If you are diagnosed with breast cancer, talk to your doctor about your choices :
You and your doctor should consider:
The choice of what is best for you can be difficult. You and the health care providers who are treating your breast cancer will decide together what is best.
Women who have a very high risk of developing breast cancer may choose to have a preventive (or prophylactic) mastectomy to reduce the risk of breast cancer.
You may be more likely to get breast cancer if one or more close family relatives has had the disease, especially at an early age. Genetic tests (such as BRCA1 or BRCA2) may help show that you have a high risk.
Prophylactic mastectomy should be done only after very careful thought and discussion with your doctor, a genetic counselor, your family, and loved ones.
Mastectomy greatly reduces the risk of breast cancer, but does not eliminate it.
Scabbing, blistering, or skin loss along the edge of the surgical cut may occur.
Risks when more invasive surgery, such as a radical mastectomy, is done are:
You may have blood and imaging tests (such as CT scans , bone scans , and chest x-ray ) after your doctor finds breast cancer. Your surgeon will want to know if your cancer has spread.
Always tell your doctor or nurse if:
During the week before the surgery:
On the day of the surgery:
Your doctor or nurse will tell you when to arrive at the hospital.
Most women stay in the hospital for 1 - 3 days after a mastectomy . The time you stay will depend on the type of surgery you had. If you have a simple mastectomy, you might go home on the same day. You may be in the hospital longer if you have breast reconstruction.
Many women go home with drainage tubes still in their chest. The doctor will remove them later during an office visit. A nurse will teach you how to look after the drain, or you might be able to have a home care nurse help you.
You may have pain around the site of your cut after surgery. The pain is moderate after the first day and then goes away over a period of a few weeks. You will receive pain medicines before you are released from the hospital.
Fluid may collect in the area of your mastectomy after all the drains are removed. This is called a seroma. It usually goes away on its own, but it may need to be drained using a needle (aspiration).
Most women recover well after mastectomy.
In addition to surgery, you may need other treatments for breast cancer. These treatments may include hormonal therapy, radiation therapy , and chemotherapy . All have side effects, so you should talk to your doctor about the choices.
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Hunt KK, Green MC, Buchholz TA. Diseases of the breast. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 36.
Cuzick J, DeCensi A, Arun B, Brown PH, Catiglione M, Dunn B, et al. Preventive therapy for breast cancer: a consensus statement. Lancet Oncol. 2011;12:496-503.
Giuliano AE, Hunt KK, Ballman KV, Beitsch PD, Whitworth PW, Blumencranz PW, et al. Axillary dissection vs no axillary dissection in women with invasive breast cancer and sentinel node metastasis: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2011;305:569-575.
Debra G. Wechter, MD, FACS, General Surgery practice specializing in breast cancer, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.
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SC wrote:5TOOLER wrote:babe ruth sold to the yankees 90 years ago today.
...keep up the good work
it was 91 years ago...
Actually, it was 12/26/1919 that he was sold. It wasn't announced until 10 days later, on 1/5/1920, 91 years ago yesterday, as SC correctly pointed out.
(still waiting for 5Loser's reply on Bill Buckner's relevance to the Sox Offseason Blueprint)

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Jack Garcia
5-10, 170, Jr.
La Crosse
Jack Garcia comes from a family who loves football. He has followed in the footsteps of Joey and Jeremy, his brothers who also played quarterback for La Crosse. Garcia, in his second season as a starter, has never felt pressure.
"I know I have teammates around me that are just as good as me," Garcia said.
In the summer, Garcia worked often with senior wide receiver Taylor Yohe, junior wide receiver/special teams returner Andrew Jay and senior Marshall Jay.
"It's because of my teammates," Garcia said. "I was so much more comfortable with them. I wasn't the young guy anymore. I stepped up as a junior this year and the seniors made it easy for me."
As a sophomore, Garcia completed 80 of 135 passes for 1,397 yards with 16 TDs against six interceptions and 210 rushing yards. This fall, he was 92 of 173 for 2,077 yards with 31 scores and 11 INTs. He also rushed 130 times for 669 yards and 11 scores. Garcia was one of five Kansas juniors to exceed 2,000 passing yards, according to maxpreps.com.
Garcia stepped up in the playoffs with strong games against Oakley and Meade. Against Oakley, he scored the game's first TD on a fourth down run from seven yards. In the final seconds, he found Marshall Jay on another fourth down TD from 5 yards out for a 12-7 win.
"There were some games that I didn't think that Jack was going to let us lose this year," Webster said.
Kyle Gfeller
5-11, 150, Sr.
Wallace County
Wallace County coach Kevin Ayers has made a habit of developing players under center who can beat you in multiple ways. Kyle Gfeller, leading the Wildcats back to the Eight-Man Division II state title game for the first time since 2007, was no different.
The senior threw for 660 yards and 11 scores to two interceptions, rushed for 883 yards and 20 touchdowns, and racked up 1,247 all-purpose yards. He had 192 kickoff return yards and 27 punt return yards.
Gfeller also was the team's second-leading tackler with 52 (28 solo). What set Gfeller apart from many eight-man players, was his, and Wallace County's, ability to kick the ball.
Gfeller was 6 of 7 on PAT attempts, and was 3 for 3 on field goals. He hit a season-long 38-yarder in the sub-state championship game, a 31-6 win against Beloit/St. John's-Tipton. His other two field goals were a 35-yarder against Hoxie in Week 2, and a 32-yarder against Thunder Ridge in the first round of the playoffs.
Gfeller was one of six sets of brothers on the Wildcats this season. His younger brother, Eric, was the team's backup QB. The Wildcats averaged 37.5 points per game, and had only one contest within a touchdown prior to falling to undefeated Baileyville-B&B in the state title game.
"A great season," Gfeller said following the title game. "Just came up a little short. I'm proud of my guys. I will miss them."
Marshall Jay
6-2, 175, Sr.
La Crosse
Marshall Jay perpetually exudes a calm and collected personality.
"I feel emotion," he said. "I don't like showing it very much."
Jay's quiet presence helped lead La Crosse to a 12-1 record and berth against Centralia in the Class 2-1A state championship game. Jay and senior safety Taylor Yohe were the lone Leopards with more than two years of starting experience. Jay took over for Shrine Bowler Kip Keeley at middle linebacker and finished with a team-high 103 tackles, including 16 for loss, second-most. For his career, Jay had 191 tackles, 21 for loss.
For the last four years, Bill Keeley, Kip's dad and longtime coach, coached the Leopards' defense. Bill Keeley stepped aside this year and Chris Delimont moved into the new role.
"I take pride in defense," Jay said. "Just goes back to when Mr. Keeley was here, linebackers setting the edge. You have to be ticked off if you don't make every tackle. It didn't really change a whole lot. Mr. Delimont really stepped into it perfect and he wasn't always as lively as Mr. Keeley, but he got the job done."
Offensively, Jay moved from end to running back after the first month and finished with 89 carries for 652 yards and six scores. In the first three playoff games, he had 78, 98, and 90 yards. Jay also caught 14 passes for 345 yards and six TDs.
Connor Katt
5-9, 150, Jr.
As a sophomore in 2012, Connor Katt was the Indians' third-leading rusher on a 10-2 team that fell in the first round of the Eight-Man Division I playoffs.
To start 2013, opposing defenses might have been keying in on what returning senior quarterback Chase Kennedy could do.
It didn't take long for teams to start focusing on Katt -- even though not many were successful at slowing him down.
Katt finished with 215 carries for 1,666 yards and 29 scores, leading the Indians to their deepest playoff run since 1981. Hoxie was 10-2 and fell in the Eight-Man Division I sub-state championship game to eventual runner-up Jetmore-Hodgeman County.
Katt averaged 138.8 yards per game, and scored once on every seven touches. He led the Indians in all-purpose yards with 2,055 as the team's primary kick and punt returner.
"Any time we gave him the ball, he could bust it for that lone one," Indian coach Lance Baar said. "Even in traffic, he was very good.
"If there wasn't anything there, he would put his shoulder down and get ready for a hit. He's an explosive athlete."
Katt also was the team's fourth-leading tackler with 5.3 per game. In only two games did Katt fail to reach the 100-yard mark in rushing.
Hoxie's big three of Katt, junior fullback Josh Heim and Kennedy combined for 3,177 rushing yards and 55 scores.
Ryan Kuhn
6-2, 230, Jr.
Throughout the season, teams had to figure out a way to get past Oakley junior nose guard Ryan Kuhn. Even in the second round of the playoffs, La Crosse often ran away from Kuhn in the middle. Still, Kuhn finished with four tackles for loss and three sacks in a 12-7 loss.
"He is such a good player," La Crosse coach Jon Webster said.
That performance was nearly replicated all fall for Kuhn, the fulcrum for Kansas' No. 1 ranked defense with just 39 points allowed.
Kuhn, the Class 2-1A District 7 Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore, improved this season with a slimmer frame.
Kuhn recovered six fumbles for an 8-2 team. In the final three games, Kuhn was in on 10 tackles for loss.
"I just got faster with my feet was able to move faster with my hands," he said.
Offensively, Kuhn, the starting center, helped Oakley's power running game average 41 points per contest in coach Randall Rath's final season.
The Plainsmen put up 50 or more five times, and 70 or more twice.
Rath announced his resignation shortly after the year started.
Cody Lee
La Crosse
Cody Lee had played linebacker his first three seasons with La Crosse and recorded 45 tackles, one for loss and no sacks. Lee moved to defensive line this season out of necessity and was a little undersized at 5-foot-9, 193 pounds. However, Lee had a great offseason.
"The work he did this offseason was just crazy," La Crosse junior quarterback Jack Garcia said. "He is not the biggest guy, but he has the biggest heart out there. He worked so hard this offseason to get stronger and faster. He is a lot quicker than most of those big linemen."
Lee finished with 86 tackles and led La Crosse with 23 tackles for loss, 19 quarterback hurries and six sacks. He said his best game came in a 40-8 victory against Plainville in Week 4 (9 tackles, 5 TFLs, 1 sack).
"He looked like he was in a street brawl every Friday night right after the game, especially after Oakley and Meade (in playoffs), but he kept going, and he never flinched," coach Jon Webster said.
Lee helped La Crosse overcome the loss of junior end Sheldon Schmidt to a season-ending knee injury in Week 4 and finish 12-1 with a Class 2-1A runner-up showing. Lee plans to enter the Marines.
"I worked all four years of my high school career as hard as I could," Lee said. "My size and everything, it gave me kind of an advantage on some people. I was kind of surprised, but I was very confident in what I could do."
Maverick LeRock
6-3, 200, Sr.
There weren't many players as intimidating at the eight-man level as Osborne's Maverick LeRock.
The 6-foot-3, 200-pound senior was arguably the most important factor in the Bulldogs' 13-0 season, which ended with a 56-8 rout of Hodgeman County in the Eight-Man Division I state title game.
LeRock was the team's fullback on offense, where he blocked for senior running back Kenton Ubelaker (1,545 rushing yards) and sophomore quarterback Jake Tiernan (694 yards rushing, 1,653 yards passing, 39 total touchdowns). But LeRock also touched the ball plenty, and was nearly unstoppable when he did.
LeRock finished the season with 1,344 yards on 164 carries, an 8.2 yards per carry average. He ran for at least 115 yards in each of the last five games of the season. LeRock rushed for 27 touchdowns on the season. LeRock was terrific out of the backfield as well, catching 22 passes for 375 yards and four more scores.
As impressive as he was on offense, LeRock really stood out on defense. He moved to nose guard this season and was a nightmare for opposing offenses.
He had 72 tackles, four for loss, to go with seven sacks and one interception. He had three sacks alone in the Bulldogs' 68-52 playoff win over Marais des Cygnes Valley.
The senior captain ran for 3,027 yards in his career with 51 rushing touchdowns.
Trent Rietzke
5-8, 165, Jr.
Thunder Ridge
When Trent Rietzke stepped into a starting role for the Thunder Ridge Longhorns as a sophomore, he had big shoes to fill from the previous season in Kansas' all-time leading eight-man rusher in Joel Struckhoff.
A year later, Rietzke has shown similar playmaking ability in Longhorn coach Jerry Voorhees' system.
Rietzke brings his own style, though, to the backfield for the Longhorns, and a few other unique qualities that have helped along the way.
"Trent is just a phenomenal kid," Voorhees said of his junior tailback. "He just works so hard -- in the weight room and on the field. He hardly ever missed a day."
It led to Rietzke putting up incredible numbers in 2013, a season that ended with the Longhorns falling to eventual Eight-Man Division II state runner-up Sharon Springs-Wallace County in the playoffs.
A shifty runner, Rietzke piled up nearly 1,400 rushing yards and scored 24 times in the run game. In addition, he was the Longhorns' primary kick and punt returner, and played at least two different positions on defense.
"He's just a tough kid," Voorhees said. "He's a very shifty runner, and he's quick to hit the hole."
The junior also has shown great leadership qualities. On a team with six seniors,
Rietzke was elected one of three captains by his teammates in preseason. He'll be relied on heavily for the Longhorns in 2014.
Kenton Ubelaker
5-9, 180, Sr.
The Osborne Bulldogs set a school record with 760 points this season en route to a 13-0 record and Eight-Man Division I state title, their first since a Class 3A title in 1983.
The production centered on an unstoppable trio in the backfield, led by senior running back Kenton Ubelaker.
Ubelaker, at 5-foot 9 and 180 pounds, finished the season with 1,545 yards on 186 carries (8.31 average per carry) and 25 rushing touchdowns. He was undervalued as a receiver, where he caught 37 passes for 533 yards and nine more touchdowns. To top it off, Ubelaker was 11 of 14 passing for 57 yards and a touchdown.
Though Ubelaker is known more for his speed, Osborne football coach Steve Tiernan said he brought just as much power to the field. He accounted for more than 2,600 all-purpose yards while also serving as one of the team's punt and kick returners.
Ubelaker was key on defense as well, where he finished with 111 tackles (five tackles for loss), and four interceptions. Though rarely needed in this fashion, Ubelaker also punted for the Bulldogs, averaging 36.0 yards a punt.
Four of his eight punt attempts landed inside the opponent's 20-yard line. Ubelaker finished his career with 2,773 rushing yards, 1,479 receiving yards and 78 total touchdowns, most coming as a junior and senior.
Preston Weigel
5-11, 200, Sr.
Hays High
Coming off a spring where he broke his tibia, Hays High School senior running back Preston Weigel was somewhat of an unknown coming into the season.
All those question marks have long been erased as Weigel rushed for 1,188 yards (with 6.1 yards per carry) and 14 touchdowns for the 6-3 Indians. At times this season, Weigel single-handedly carried the team, especially after starting junior quarterback Alex Delton was forced to miss time due to injury.
Weigel rushed for more than 100 yards in seven of nine games, including a season high 200 yards on 38 carries against Dodge City. He had multiple touchdowns in five games.
"You look at the Dodge game with Alex out, he carried it 30-plus times and took the game over," Hays High football coach Ryan Cornelsen said. "He is a very strong kid. Plays awfully hard. Very tough. But I think people sometimes underestimate him -- he's also fast ... just a great overall football player." Weigel was second in the WAC in rushing yards, first among running backs. His 14 rushing touchdowns were third in the WAC, again first among running backs.
This was his first and only season playing running back for Hays High after playing fullback the previous two seasons, blocking for two-time WAC player of the year David Cardinal.
Grant Wickham
6-4, 205, Sr. RB/LB/P/K
In the final two games of the season, Grant Wickham turned into a go-to guy for Phillipsburg. And he did it with a knee injury.
That just might show how tough the all-around athlete for the Panthers really is. Wickham injured his left knee in the Norton game (Week 9), but played through the pain in the final two games where Phillipsburg finished 1-1 after a nailbiting 24-21 loss to defending Class 3A state champion Scott City.
"He was huge," Phillipsburg coach J.B. Covington said of Wickham, the Panthers' leading rusher with 889 yards, the team's fourth-leading tackler with 80, the team's kicker as well as its punter. "He became our go-to guy down the stretch."
Then after the season, Wickham finally took the time to heal. He just had knee surgery earlier this week, and hopes to be back in January as a key guy for the Panthers' basketball team.
Wickham averaged 80.8 rushing yards per game and found the end zone a team-high 13 times. He also was a favorite target for senior quarterback Riley Juenemann. Wickham caught 11 balls for 319 yards with a team-high four touchdowns. He averaged 39.4 yards per punt and planted seven inside the 20.
Wickham, whose two older brothers earned All-American honors at Hastings (Neb.) College in track and field, has always leaned toward following suit in track, but Covington said he is open to football as well.
"He picked up where he left of (as a junior)," Covington said. "And made some big improvements. With the type of athlete he is, it was just a matter of him getting a little confidence. Once he got that, he just kind of took off."


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That's all from us here at Markets Live, thanks for tuning in, we'll see you tomorrow from 9.30am.
What to watch our for overnight: US consumer prices.
And the main item on tomorrow's agenda is the employment data for December, with economists expecting a slowdown in the number of new jobs created, pushing the unemployment rate to 5.4 per cent from 5.2 per cent.
Defensives led the gains on the ASX200; blood products maker CSL Ltd surged 3.5 per cent, Telstra jumped 1.1 per cent and food retailer Wesfarmers rose 0.5 per cent.
"Investors continue to pile back into defensive-yield plays," says Evan Lucas, market strategist at IG Markets. "Health care, telecommunications and financial sectors are all outperforming the market."
The local market was today's star performer in the region, which is awash in red:
- Japan (Nikkei): -2.25%
- Hong Kong: -0.6%
- Shanghai: -1.7%
- Taiwan: -0.8%
- South Korea: -0.65%
- India: -0.1%
- SIngapore: +0.1%
- New Zealand: flat
The Nikkei's losses can be attributed to the rebound in the yen, which prompted investors to take profits on shares of exporters.
In Shanghai, investors took profits on recent outperformers such as Chinese financials ahead of more China economic data at the end of the week.
Here's a look at the best and worst performers on the ASX200 today:
Among the sectors, consumer discretionary jumped 0.8 per cent, health surged 2.3 per cent, Telcos rose 1.1 per cent and financials added 0.6 per cent. Materials were the main drag on the market, slipping 0.2 per cent.
The market has finished higher, led by gains in the financial sector. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 jumped 21.8 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 4738.4, while the broader All Ords added 22 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 4765.
Rising iron ore prices could be behind Fortescue's decision to step back from a deal to invest in a small unconventional gas exploration company.
The iron ore producer yesterday terminated discussions with oil and gas explorer Oil Basins, just two months after announcing it would take an 18 per cent stake in the company. It comes as the iron ore price continues to rise above $US150 per tonne.
Morningstar Resource analyst Mathew Hodge said while the flagged investment was minuscule by Fortescue's standards, there was some apprehension among investors that the company would expand into the oil and gas sector after securing a cornerstone stake in Oil Basins.
''There was some comment that it could be a distraction and I think that was the only concern the market had,'' Mr Hodge said. ''You're supposed to be an iron ore miner. Why would you be getting involved in a speculative energy company?''
The ASX200 continued it's rather measured 2013 ascent today, with financials and industrials stocks doing more than enough to counteract weakness from the mining heavyweights, says CMC Markets analyst Tim Waterer:
- Today was perhaps best described as a tentative press forward ahead of key economic releases due in the next two days.
- While this description may be understating the actual points gained by the index today, it would appear that a number of traders are waiting to see how Friday's Chinese GDP data pans out before buying with more conviction and this is particularly true of the mining sector.
- While financial markets have enjoyed a confident start to 2013 so far, it is still a potentially hazardous environment for investors with cliff fears replaced by those of a ceiling (of the debt variety).
The big winners today are the banks, Telstra and Boral. Another noteable winner for the day is CSL, up 3.5 per cent, posting a second day of gains, but there's little news on the stock.
On the other side of the ledger we have the big miners, which are all in the red.
Units are proving a better investment than houses, with unit prices growing 1.1 percentage point more annually than house prices over the past five years.
Property researcher RP Data shows that while capital city unit prices grew by an annual average return of 2.9 per cent over the five years to December 31 last year, house prices grew by only 1.8 per cent.
However, there is a marked difference in relative price performance between houses and units in the two biggest property markets of Sydney and Melbourne. In Sydney, the average annual price growth for Sydney houses over the past five years is 2.7 per cent and 3.6 per cent for units.
But in Melbourne, where there is an oversupply of units, the gap is smaller. Melbourne house prices show an annual average growth of 3.3 per cent compared to 3.9 per cent for units.
Apple began allowing users of its Chinese website to pay in installments as the company looks for ways to make iPhones and MacBook laptops more affordable in the world's largest computer and mobile-phone market.
Payments can be made over a two-year period for purchases of 300 yuan or more, up to a limit of 30,000 yuan, Apple said on its Chinese site. The installment plans require a credit card from China Merchants Bank, it said.
Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said last week that China will overtake the US to become its largest market, as he visited the world's most-populous nation for the second time in less than 10 months. The iPhone 5, released in China last month, is priced at 5,288 yuan on Apple's China site, equal to about six weeks' pay for the average urban worker.
The Australian Retailers Association says Deloitte's report - ''Global Powers of Retail 2013'' - released yesterday, shows that Australian retail is experiencing a ''paradigm shift'' as the online space grows.
''Conducting business seamlessly across both physical and virtual channels has exposed Australian retail not just to competition from overseas but also to overseas entrants marketing their offers directly via new, Australian-based brand outlets,'' ARA's executive director Russell Zimmerman said.
In the report, Deloitte stated that retailers who failed to provide their customers an integrated shopping experience across bricks and mortar and online were ''at risk of becoming irrelevant''.
More on the future of retail in the Deloitte report here (from page 9).
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Qatar National Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China are among the suitors expected to submit preliminary bids to buy Rabobank's Indonesian unit, in a $400 million deal, sources said.
The first-round bids are due by the end of January, and some suitors are already working with financial advisers to place indicative proposals, the sources added.
Rabobank, which has its roots in the Dutch farming sector, is shedding subscale and nonstrategic businesses to focus its international operations on the agricultural industry. The planned sale of its Indonesian unit is part of that process.
Japan's Transport Ministry considers the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airway's Boeing 787 jet a major incident that could have led to an accident, Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday.
ANA and Japan Airlines are grounding all Dreamliners after the ANA flight made an emergency landing when instruments indicated a battery error and an unusual smell was detected in the cockpit and cabin.
Ford Motor, estimating losses of more than $US1.5 billion in Europe in 2012, forecast similar losses there this year before turnaround efforts lead it back to profitability in the region by mid-decade.
The second-biggest US automaker expects this year's result to be "essentially the same as what we'll announce for 2012 later this month," Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks said today at the Deutsche Bank Global Auto Industry Conference in Detroit.
After this year, the company "would expect to start to see an improvement in the bottom line on the way towards profitability by mid-decade" in Europe, he said.
Europe's top three equity-fund managers since the post-financial crisis market bottom all agree on one thing: banks are bad investments.
Allianz SE's Europe Equity Growth Fund, Comgest Growth Europe Fund and Montanaro European Smaller Companies Fund produced the best risk-adjusted returns since March 2009 among European stock funds with more than 500 million euros, by bottom-up stock picking and staying away from banks, according to the Bloomberg riskless return ranking. The three managers -- Thorsten Winkelmann, Arnaud Cosserat and Charles Montanaro -- are still not buying.
"I don't see ourselves buying into any of the banks anytime soon," said Frankfurt-based Winkelmann, 39, whose 145 per cent return over the period in his 3.5 billion-euro fund was the best in both absolute and risk-adjusted terms.
"You ask the CEOs of the banks about their return-on-equity targets, and they can't tell you. How can a third-party fund manager know and put his money there?"
The top-performing managers are unfazed by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's moves to shore up the region's banks, which made financial stocks the STOXX 600 Index's best performers in the past year.
Instead, they prefer stocks such as Swedish radiation-surgery manufacturer Elekta AB, owned by all three managers, that have simpler business models, predictable cash flows and the biggest shares of niche markets. Banks don't fit the bill, they say.
Keeping our focus on Asia, HSBC believes 2013 will be very positive for Asian currencies, with declining risks and improving regional growth.
"We remain positive on most Asian currencies this year given global growth is looking a little brighter, particularly in China, and the perceived tail risks in the Eurozone and the US are subsiding," said head of Asian currency research Paul Mackel.
"We recognise that the problems in the Eurozone and the US have not fully gone away. But ultimately, we expect slow and steady appreciation by most of the region's currencies with a broader range of funding sources."
"With inflow pressures expected to support most Asian currencies, defining the degree of policy resistance will play a crucial role in shaping our views. In 2012, Asian FX intervention was not as strong as in previous years. This, however, does not mean Asian policymakers have turned decisively more permissive about local currency strength."
Foreign direct investment in China fell 3.7 per cent in 2012 to $US111.72 billion, the government has said.
For the month of December FDI also declined, slipping 4.5 per cent from the same month in 2011 to $11.7 billion, the commerce ministry said on Wednesday.
Investment from the European Union declined 3.8 per cent to $US6.11 billion, the ministry said.
But investment from the United States rose 4.5 per cent to $US3.12 billion, the ministry said, while investment from Japan increased 16.3 per cent to $7.38 billion.
''The growth momentum of investment from some developed countries including the United States and Japan was good,'' the ministry said in a statement.
Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang also said in a statement that in 2012, Chinese directly invested $77.22 billion overseas, an increase of 28.6 per cent from the year before.
Markets around the region are mixed today, with Japan's Nikkei taking the biggest drop:
- Nikkei: -1.5%
- Shanghai: flat
- Taiwan: -0.2%
- South Korea: +0.3%
- Singapore: +0.3%
- New Zealand: +0.1%
Billabong hasn't been able to extend yesterday's rally, falling 1 per cent to 97 cents today - well below the offer price of $1.10.
IG Markets strategist Evan Lucas says analysts are still bickering over which offer is better for Billabong.
''The main jump yesterday was short sellers unwinding,'' Lucas says. He says the 13 per cent discount to the offer price indicates that many investors believe the deal won't go ahead.
''There's still an overhang over which deal is better,'' he says.
Some analysts believe investors are taking the latest two takeover offers more seriously than the string of other failed bids for Billabong in the past year.
Nice (late) lunchtime read by Michael Pascoe - China outsourcing its way to the next level:
It's not just Australian retailers facing restructuring. As global market confidence sweats on happy GDP numbers being produced by Beijing this Friday, it's symbolic of the evolving China that Sam Sham Wai-kuen is closing down his rugby jersey shop in Hong Kong's Stanley Market.
China is successfully outsourcing low-value manufacturing as it moves up the value chain and adapts to becoming a relatively higher wage economy, to becoming a richer nation.
Vietnam and plenty of others can sew buttons on while China makes Apple's i-thingys for the wealthy and trains and power stations for all. It doesn't happen overnight and there will be plenty of cheap stuff pouring out of factories forever pushing further into China's cheaper west, but it's happening sure enough.
Qantas Airways says its order for 15 Boeing Dreamliner jets remains on track, despite a string of recent problems with the aircraft.
Subsidiary Jetstar is due to take delivery of the first of the Dreamliner aircraft in the second half of this year.
Qantas declined to comment further on the issues that have plagued the Boeing 787 model, including the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airways earlier today that led the Japanese airline to ground all 17 of its 787 jets.
Qantas shares are up 0.3 per cent.
Here's a quick look at the best and worst performers on the ASX200 today, Boral is continuing its charge.
Japanese airline, All Nippon Airways said it is grounding all 17 of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircrafts after one was forced to make an emergency landing in western Japan this morning.
With Wesfarmers joining rival Woolworths in the world's top 20 retailers, we thought we'd add a link to the full list.
Republican lawmakers are preparing to introduce legislation to direct the US Treasury to make interest payments on US bonds first and then prioritize other government outlays in case Congress does not raise the debt ceiling.
Supporters of the idea see it as a politically palatable alternative to default, which could rattle markets as occurred in the summer of 2011. The likelihood of another market-unsettling event is challenging Republicans to find another idea as they use the debt ceiling as leverage to extract spending cuts from President Barack Obama.
But critics, including some Republicans, say prioritizing payments is largely unworkable and would not fool the markets.
The Treasury hit the $US16.4 trillion debt ceiling, or the legal amount it is allowed to borrow, on New Year's Eve and started moving funds around so that the government can continue paying its bills. But the department said it will run out of funds as early as mid-February.
The banks are still leading the way higher today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 is currently up 16.2 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 4732.8, while the broader All Ords has added 15.6 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 4758.6.
Here's some an interesting note from CommSec's internal data showing retail investors prefer cyclical rather than defensive sectors.
Over the last month, retail investors have been net buyers of consumer discretionary, media, and IT and net sellers of Utilities and Healthcare.
CoreData's Investor Sentiment Index is also showing improvement, and with households sitting on significant cash balances, wealth managers are well leveraged to benefit should this continue as they experience positive asset class shift from lower‑margin cash/fixed interest to higher‑margin equities.
The owners of Australia's dominant supermarket chains are fighting for supremacy among the world's largest retailers after Wesfarmers joined rival Woolworths in the world's top 20.
Coles owner Wesfarmers charged into 18th position from 21st and is growing quicker than Woolworths, which is up one place to 17th, according to the 2013 Global Powers of Retailing Report by accounting firm Deloitte.
The two companies achieved more than $47.54 billion each in revenue at home and in New Zealand, compared to others in the top 20 who derived income from stores located in at least 10 countries.
Despite difficult global economic conditions, the world's largest retailers prospered with more than 80 per cent of the top 250 posting an increase in retail revenue.
With investors placing themselves for 2013, ANZ has released some forecasts to consider.
Markets with the greatest leverage to Chinese demand and an improving US backdrop, (particularly housing) will be the strongest performers, said ANZ economists.
"Our top picks are Brent crude, precious metals, grains and copper. Our outright bullish trades in palladium and Brent crude reflect both a stronger demand profile and supply constraints."
The Australian dollar has regained some ground on the euro after a top European official complained about its recent run higher, but nursed losses on the yen following a warning about its excessive weakness by a Japanese official.
The dollar is trading at 79.58 euro cents, up nearly half a cent, after the chairman of the euro zone finance ministers said the euro was "dangerously high".
In a similar reaction that prompted a reversal in the yen, investors unwound bearish positions in the Japanese currency after Japan's Economics Minister warned that excessive yen weakness could boost import prices, hurting people's livelihood.
The dollar was recently buying 93.5 yen, from a four-year peak of 94.63 set earlier in the week.
Against the greenback, the Aussie has edged up to $US1.0575, from $US1.0563 early, within reach of a four-month peak of $US1.0600 set last week
Some more economic data: personal finance loans rose by 1.0 per cent in November, to $7.448 billion, from an upwardly revised $7.378 billion in October.
But total commercial loans in November fell 7.2 per cent to $29.427 billion, seasonally-adjusted, from $31.717 billion in October.
Lease finance was up 1.5 per cent to $551 million, compared with $542 million the previous month. Housing finance for owner occupiers rose 0.6 per cent to $13.940 billion, from $13.861 billion the month before.
More on car sales, for December, Toyota retained first place on the sales ladder with 22.2 per cent of the market. Mazda climbed to second spot with 10.0 per cent, overtaking the Holden unit of General Motors with 9.1 per cent.
Hyundai moved up to fourth with 8.1 per cent, while Ford dropped back a place with 8.0 pe rcent.
For all of 2012, Toyota again led with 19.6 per cent of the market. Holden came second, but its share declined by over two percentage points to 10.3 per cent. Mazda took third spot, while Ford fell two spots to fifth on the sales table.
Sales of sports utility vehicles extended their barnstorming run with a rise of 5.8 per cent in December to 26,502, an increase of 17 per cent for the year.
SUVs remain in demand ... Toyota Kluger, Holden Adventra, and Ford Territory. PHOTO Neil Newitt Photo: Neil Newitt
Australia has jumped three spots to seventh place in the BlackRock Sovreign Risk Index (BSRI), which tracks sovereign credit risk in 48 countries, due to an improved budget balance.
""Australia's strong ranking underscores the importance of a bipartisan medium-term focus for fiscal policy. Sound public debt metrics continue to underpin Australia's desirability as an investment location," said BlackRock head of fixed income Steve Miller.
"They also indicate that Australia is well-placed to avoid the difficulties faced by other developed nations which are now seeking to bring their medium-term public finance settings back to sustainable footings"
Australian consumers started the new year with little enthusiasm as concern about the family budget outweighed positive sentiment about the state of the economy.
The Westpac Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment for January, released today, rose 0.6 points to 100.6 points, putting it in positive territory but below its high levels of a few years ago and before the global financial crisis.
New car sales also jumped 2.2 per cent in January, after a revised 0.2% last month, over the year, sales jumped 17.9, from up from 9.8 last month.
The dollar hardly reacted but is still trading near the day's highs, around $US1.0573.
Health stocks are still leading the ASX200 with a gain of 1.28 per cent. The better performed companies on that sub index include:
- Mesoblast: +2.15%
- Resmed: +1.57%
- Primary Health: +1.29%
- Ansell: +0.99%
- Sigma: +0.71%
- Cochlear: +0.68%
Boral shares have continued their strong start to the day, up now 6.1 per cent, or 26.5 cents, to $4.62. Here's why.
An interesting news item for watchers James Packer's Crown Ltd.
The CEO of casino operator Crown, Rowen Craigie, has been linked to an investigation by Taiwanese authorities into the alleged channelling of $US180 million ($170.4 million) in illicit gambling funds from Taiwan to the Chinese gambling enclave Macau.
It is understood that the investigation relates to fund transfers on behalf of high rollers looking to gamble in Macau.
Last week, Taiwanese regulators announced a probe into allegedly illegal transfers of gambling funds between Taiwan and Macau's casinos by the Taiwanese branch of MCE International. Two staff were questioned by authorities.
Westpac's Bill Evans on what the consumer confidence numbers mean for the Feb rates meeting:
The case for a further rate cut as early as the February meeting is still reasonable. However, a prudent Reserve Bank which has seen a resurgence in the terms of trade, is likely to defer in February to await further evidence around the impact of the rate cuts. Accordingly we have opted for the next cut in the March end of our forecast.
More here on the conumer sentiment survey.
The poll of 1,200 people by the Melbourne Institute and Westpac Bank showed its index of consumer sentiment rose 0.6 percent in January, from December when it fell 4.1 per cent. The index of 100.6 meant there is just barely more optimists than pessimists in the poll.
On January last year, the index was up 3.7 percent.
Westpac chief economist Bill Evans was surprised the mood had not improved more given past rate cuts and generally promising news offshore.
"It remains disappointing that despite a total of 175 basis points of rate cuts from the Reserve Bank since October 2011 the Index is only 3.5 percent above its level at that time," said Evans.
The consumer confidence numbers are arriving. Sneak peak:
The Westpac/Melbourne Institute index of consumer confidence rose by 0.6pts to 100.6 in January. Result in line with wkly Roy Morgan survey.
— Craig James (@craigjamesOZ) January 15, 2013
BusinessDay's Brian Robins writes that the job losses flagged today by Boral will bite most heavily in NSW and come against the backdrop of no improvement in the local constructrion sector, but as the US economy continues to improve.
Earlier today, Boral said it would cut 700 back office jobs in Australia, as it seeks to "right size the business".
Boral chief executive Mr Mike Kane said one third of the domestic job cuts would be in NSW, with a further 20 per cent of the reductions coming from each of Victoria and Queensland, with the balance spread across the rest of the country.
Now for some of the early laggards on the ASX200:
- Aquila: -4.46%
- Arrium: -3.57%
- Beadell Resources: -2.91%
- Cardno: -2.51%
- iinet: -2.05%
- Incitec Pivot: -1.86%
- Billabong: -1.53%
Overall, the big banks are enjoying a positive start to the day:
- CBA is 0.86% higher to $62.86
- ANZ is 0.16% higher to $25.31
- NAB is 0.58% higher to $25.68
- Westpac is 0.13% higher to $26.39
The big miners are underperforming the general market in opening trade:
- BHP is 0.7% lower to $36.37
- Rio is 0.6% lower to $65.50
- Fortescue is 1% higher to $4.59
The ASX200 is being led higher by Boral. Here are the other early gainers on the benchmark index:
- Ten: +3.53%
- Oceanagold: +3.02%
- Mesoblast: +2.5%
- Silver Lake Resources: +2.45%
- Medusa Mining: +2.29%
Markets now trading clearly in positive territory. Boral has added to early gains - up 4.36 per cent now.
Here's how the various sectors on the ASX200 are performing early on:
- Health: +1.13%
- Finance: +0.42%
- Consumer disc: +0.27
- Telecoms: +0.21
- Industrials: +0.12
- Materials: -0.29%
- Info tech: -0.1
Flat, flat, flat.
In early trade, the All Ordinaries index is 1.7 points higher, or 0.0 per cent, to 4744.7, while the benchmark S&P/ASX200 is 1.9 points higher, or 0.0 per cent, to 4718.5.
Shares in building products maker Boral maker are 2.6 per cent higher in opening trade after the company anounced 700 jobs would be cut nationally. They are up 11 cents to $4.47.
IG Markets is forecasting a fairly unexciting start to the day's trade. Here's IG's Evan Lucas on what he's expecting:
This morning we see the ASX 200 opening flat at 4716 points as investors look to the release of Westpac's consumer sentiment report later today and process the RIO results. Watch for movement in the consumer staples space as investor watch for positive leads in the Westpac data and US retail sales; shorters will be particularly edgy in JBH and HVN ...
We expect another day of treading water as investors see no major leads for the market to move another leg up.
On the subject of job losses:
More Job losses in Australia, seems like being AAA rated isn't all that glamorous. Fiscal response needed, #rba can't fight currency wars.
— Peter Esho (@PeterEsho) January 15, 2013
In major local news this morning, Boral has announced it will shed 700 jobs nationally.
The company says it will make the redundancies from all levels of its business - from executive level down to its manufacturing businesses.
''The restructure I am announcing today will transform the group into an organisation that is more responsive to the realities of a cyclical marketplace and one that remains competitive not just during the cycle highs but when conditions are challenging, as they have been for the past few years,'' chief executive Mike Kane said in a statement this morning.
This follows BlueScope announcing on Monday that 170 jobs would go from a Victorian facility, and comes a day ahead of official jobs numbers for December tomorrow.
A few analyst rating changes for today:
- BHP cut to hold at Dahlman Rose
- Boart Longyear cut to hold at Deutsche Bank
- Bradken cut to neutral at Credit Suisse
- Billabong raised to neutral from underweight at JPMorgan
- Envestra raised to sector perform at RBC Capital
For a comprehensive look at this morning's business news, check today's need2know. Here are this morning's key markets numbers:
- SPI futures are 6 points lower at 4686
- The $A is higher at $US1.0562
- In New York, the S&P500 was 0.11% higher at 1472.34
- In Europe, the FTSE100 rose 0.15% to 6117.31
- China iron ore lost $US1.10 to $US152.90 a metric tonne
- Gold added 0.9% to $US1683.90 an ounce
- WTI crude oil fell 86 cents to $US63.28 a barrel
- Reuters/Jefferies CRB index added 0.49% to 298.12
Good morning folks. Welcome to the Markets Live blog for Wednesday.
Contributors: Thomas Hunter, Jens Meyer, Max Mason
This blog is not intended as investment advice
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If you look closely on the barrel of the 2014 RIP-IT Drop Twelve AIR (F1412), it does say ISA Certified. This label is in small print in the blue area where "DROP TWELVE AIR" is printed.
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The 2014 RIP-IT Drop Twelve AIR: F1412 Fastpitch is approved in Little League fastpitch softball.
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