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Fin services lend weight to East Timor education

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... Timorese a new lease of life by giving them access to what many in the western world take for granted: education. Last Saturday, more than 20 financial services providers supported a fundraising event by eMerge foundation, a foundation set up by financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... exceed 10,000. An explosion at the ageing Fukushima atomic plant blew apart the building housing one of its reactors on Saturday, a day after the biggest quake ever recorded in Japan unleashed a monster tsunami. Meanwhile, the Australian bond market ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... Kong were also adopting a cautious attitude ahead of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress, starting Saturday, for signs of any changes in policy direction. Hong Kong was weighed by HSBC after investors were unimpressed by its outlook ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... 9.6 per cent in October. But have no fear, the Fed is here. Cyberspace was full of it when I was reading the spins last Saturday morning. Their overriding theme was that, the soft jobs data means that more money would be dropping out of Big Ben's helicopter. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... said the trading week had started very positively, with the local bourse boosted by strong economic data from China on Saturday. Consumer inflation in China rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years in August, but its National Bureau of Statistics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... Street lifted as a better-than-expected wholesale inventory report boosted confidence in the US economy. China reported on Saturday that consumer inflation rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years in August, the 10th consecutive month the consumer ...

Nothing to fear in hung parliament

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
The financial services industry is still digesting the ramifications of Saturday's election cliffhanger, which has given Australia its first hung parliament since 1940. "It certainly does leave the industry in limbo at the moment," said Fiona Reynolds ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... finger-pointing, spins, recriminations, soul searching, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera that preceded and followed last Saturday's Australian elections. Like many of you, I stayed up till the wee hours of Sunday morning only to find out that us Australians ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... and financial sectors and as the market anticipated the announcement of the date of the federal election, announced on Saturday as August 21. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 19.9 points, or 0.45 per cent, at 4,422.7 points, while the broader ...

Drunk futures broker banned

FSA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... Perkins traded without client authorisation in the early hours of the Tuesday morning after drinking heavily between Saturday and Monday in June 2009. He traded an "extremely high volume" of Brent contract and, as a result, accumulated a long outright ...