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Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... housing slump. "But that being the case, if the slowdown in the US economy continues then the flow on effect onto commodities could be negative." The local banking sector continued to build on yesterday's gains with National Australia Bank rising 18 ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... Australia's (RBA) interest rate rise today dampened the effects of a rally in global markets and strong push up in commodities overnight. "I think it's essentially the rate rise and moreover the thought that there will probably be another one to follow," ...

Back the winning horse, all the time

... chose it or not. 'Optimiser 4' basically works on three multi-asset 'investment profiles' namely: equities-biased, commodities-biased or balanced. The equities-biased investment profile invests 60 per cent to equities, 20 per cent to bonds and property ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... trading. "We've done about $2 billion in turnover, so this is going to be an average sort of a day I think, following the commodities last night, and that has also been extended to the big banks, but why I haven't the faintest idea - profit taking is ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... consequence of a 27.6 fall in the annual production of oil while during this period the volume of output of other commodities increased or remained steady. The mixed response of the housing industry to increases in interest rates and some slowing in ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... warned. Keating said economic conditions were already beginning to fragment after being artificially buoyed by the commodities boom. Reflecting the need for retirees to access actual savings rather than savings they missed through Government policy inaction ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
... metals. BHP Billiton said at its annual general meeting in London overnight that with an encouraging demand outlook for commodities, albeit with risks, high prices looked set to continue. On Wall Street overnight, stocks rose as strong earnings from ...

CFDs close in on share trading

... respondents still trade shares directly, a high 47 per cent trade CFDs followed by 20 per cent who trade futures and commodities and 13 per cent who trade options. "We were astounded by this. We asked them 'what instruments are you trading?' and I couldn't ...

SimCorp expands local office

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
... Services where he managed a portfolio of external institutional clients. Prior to that he was the manager of treasury and commodities accounting for Macquarie Bank. Chaseling has recently worked with DST International and BYSIS Hedge Funds, Chase Manhattan ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... electronic equipment, legal and accounting services, property operators and metal ore mining. Finally, preliminary stage commodities affected producer prices 1.7 per cent over the quarter and 7.7 per cent on an annual basis largely as a result of the ...