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Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... (?) negotiated to extend over this weekend passed. "Plus ASa change..." We won! We won! In a televised statement last Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared, "Yesterday we took a decisive step, leaving austerity, the bailouts and the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... by 25 basis points to 2.75 per cent, and its one-year lending rate by 40 basis points to 5.6 per cent, both effective Saturday. WELLINGTON - The NZX 50 Index fell 21.129 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 5471.683.

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... on listed retirement village operators. Stocks with regulatory pressure also fell amid political uncertainty ahead of Saturday's general election. The NZX 50 Index fell 21.075 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 5189.785 on Tuesday.

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... events, investors reacted to weak Chinese economic data and a possible shake-up of the beer industry. Beijing said on Saturday that industrial production grew by 6.9 per cent last month, its weakest rate since December 2008. HONG KONG - Asian markets ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... 0.38 per cent, or 7.70 points, to 2,041.86 and Shanghai added 0.88 per cent, or 20.27 points, to 2,331.95. China will on Saturday announce figures including retail sales and fixed asset investment for August. Data released Thursday showed inflation easing ...

Humanitarian you, humanitarian me too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
You kiddin' me? I had to go through not one, not two, nor three but several websites to verify what I was reading Saturday morning (Melbourne time), that Wall Street jumped - with the S&P 500 index's Friday surge erasing all of the losses it made from ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... Energy provider SP AusNet fell 1.75 cents to $1.3475 after agreeing to pay $500 million to survivors of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires. The class action settlement - the largest in Australian history - follows claims faulty equipment ignited the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... Energy provider SP AusNet fell 1.75 cents to $1.3475 after agreeing to pay $500 million to survivors of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires. The class action settlement - the largest in Australian history - follows claims faulty equipment ignited the ...

150,000 candidates cramming for CFA exams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... from 179 countries are gearing up to sit six hours of examinations for their Level I, II and III CFA qualifications on Saturday. The number of exam registrations for this year's December 2013 to June 2014 exam cycle exceeds 211,000. Regionally, Asia ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... lower after weak Chinese trade data lead to a fall in commodity prices. Chinese import and export figures released on Saturday showed an unexpected trade deficit of $US22.98 billion ($A25.37 billion), vastly different to a $US11.9 billion surplus economists ...