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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... at 4,239.6, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 24.4 points, or 0.6 per cent, at 4,303. NEW YORK - Microsoft and IBM drove US stocks up on Friday after the tech giants reported stronger earnings than analysts had expected. The Dow Jones industrial ...

Asia growth to transform business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... new competitors, partners and customers. Asia will also be a new platform for global business. Dr Gupta said, for example, IBM has 365,000 employees worldwide and almost half of them are based in India with a significant number of these servicing other ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... and Shadow Minister for Industry and Commerce. Hewson was a founding executive director of Macquarie Bank, a trustee of the IBM Superannuation Fund and director and chairman of a number of public and private companies. In addition to his political background ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... came a day after Wall Street enjoyed its strongest one-day rally this year, driven by robust earnings from companies like IBM and Coca-Cola. Wednesday's big winner was Apple, whose shares surged 2.7 per cent after it reported that its second-quarter ...

Earnings up but jobs cut at State Street

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... global job cuts come as part of an "IT Transformation" program with 320 information technology workers moving to tech firms IBM or Wipro while a further 530 will have their jobs eliminated, the company said on its website. The firm announced last year ...

Perpetual chief ushers in new era

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... said Ryan, adding that 26 roles were created with new appointments to new group executive operations, Richard Vahtrick from IBM and Brian Henderson, formerly with Fidelity International, will join Perpetual in June as group executive marketing. Ryan ...

US inside trader hit with possible two-decade jail sentence

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... several hedge funds" said one court document, which alleged that the sources of inside information included an executive at IBM, a director at Intel Corporation and several other executives at listed companies. "The unlawful trading involved inside information ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... June 5, 2008. The Nasdaq Composite leaped 57.54 points (2.10 per cent) to 2,802.51. Solid earnings from Dow blue chips Intel, IBM and United Technologies, and from internet giant Yahoo!, helped to ignite buying in the Easter holiday-shortened week. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... points. Since then the blue-chip index has rebounded 87 per cent. On the 30-stock Dow, only a few components traded higher: IBM was up 2.3 per cent, Home Depot was up 1.4 per cent and AT&T was up 1.2 per cent. Government bailed-out insurer American International ...

Cashed-up China eyes US investments

... as having its finger of the pulse of US investments and political attitudes following its 2005 purchase of computer giant IBM. China already holds an estimated $800 billion in US government debt and any new infrastructure investment, which would be on ...